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Sweet Briar College
Alumnae Magazine
Fall 1978
Sweet Briar Scholars,
1978-1979
Class of 1979: Seniors
Susan C. Andrews, Norfolk, VA. Major: economics.
Honors Committee, Tau Phi, Career Counseling Com-
mittee, Sweet Briar News, vice-president of Athletic As-
sociation, Interact, member of Student Life Task Force
of Long Range Planning Commission, Dean's List, var-
sity tennis team, varsity basketball team. Sister of
Elizabeth Andrews Watts '74.
Janet L. Baldwin, Dallas, TX. Major: religion. Sweet
Briar News, tennis team, Junior Year in France, Dallas
Society for Crippled Children. Sister of Anne Baldwin
'78 and Florence Baldwin '81.
Laura L. Crum, Montgomery, AL. Major: government.
Bum Chums, Tau Phi, representative of Curriculum
Committee, Big Sister on Orientation Committee, Ger-
man Club.
Marcia G. Gibbons, Lovingston, VA. Major: psychology.
Dean's List, External Task Force of the Long Range
Planning Commission. Hopes to be a certified teacher
for children with learning disabilities.
Alice Trout Hagen, Roanoke, VA. Major: English. Co-
editor, The Brambler, Tau Phi, German Club, repre-
sentative on Sue Reid Slaughter Fund Commit-
tee, Athletic Association, Subcommittee on External
Affairs, finalist for the Virginia English Speaking Union
Award, Dean's List. Daughter of Alice Trout Hagen '49
and sister of Ellen Hagan '81.
Mary Lawrence Harris, Richmond, VA. Major: biology
and chemistry. Junior Honors, Dean's List, Tau Phi,
treasurer of Student Government Association, Student
Executive Board, Career Planning Committee, Health
Services Committee and Social Committee, Daughter
of Elizabeth Trueheart Harris '49.
Class of 1980: Juniors
Sharmini J. Luther, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Major: English
language and literature. Secretary, the International
Students Association, Sweet Briar News, Task Force on
Teaching, Concert Choir, Dean's List. Sister of Carmini
Luther '81.
Florence A. Powell, Johnson City, TN. Major: govern-
ment. Orientation Committee, Interact, Young Demo-
crats, Student Guide, Sweet Briar News, Concert Choir,
nominee for Truman Scholarship, Dean's List.
Catherine K. Tucker, Elkart, KS. Major: drama.
Paint and Patches, Friends of the Library, Student
Guide, Concert Choir, McVea Scholar, Dean's List.
Mary E. Walch, Gladstone, MI. Major: drama. Paint
and Patches, Sweet Briar News, Head Start Program in
Lynchburg, hostess to prospective students, Big Sister
for Orientation Program, Dean's List, accepted to attend
National Theatre Institute in Waterford, CT.
Elisabeth B. Ward, New Orleans, LA. Major: mathe-
matical physics. Briar Patch, diving team, chemistry lab
assistant, Orientation Committee, Young Democrats
Club, James River Project, Dean's List. Daughter of
Sloan Hawkins Ward '44.
Class of 1981: Sophomores
Sophia G. T. Crysler, Haverford, PA. Freshman Repre-
sentative to Judicial Committee, Sweet Briar News, Re-
publican Gub, French Club, treasurer for Coffee House,
Freshman Honors. Sister of Cannie E. Crysler '78.
Lynn M. Danesi, New Alexandria, PA. American Chemi-
cal Society Student Affiliate, Freshman Honors, Penn-
sylvania 4-H Animal Science and Husbandry Club, at-
tended 9th Annual Mid-Winter Chemistry Conference
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Anne F. Grosvenor, Memphis, TN. French Club,
Freshman Honors, apprentice member of the Memphis
Ballet Company; teaches ballet to Sweet Briar students.
Nancy W. Hanger, Atlanta, GA. Treasurer of the class
of 1981, Sweet Tones, R.A., Freshman Honors. Daughter
of Sudie Clark Hanger '42, sister of Libba Hanger Luther
'65 and Susan Hanger '74, niece of Betty Hanger Lippin-
cott '42.
Jane G. Losse, Salt Lake City, UT. Concert Choir, In-
teract, Freshman Sweet Briar News, Freshman Honors,
Amherst Brownie troop, adult adviser and secretary for
church youth group, speaker on "The Arts at Sweet
Briar."
Carmini J. Luther, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sweet Briar
News, Freshman Honors, International Club, Concert
Choir, social welfare work. Sister of Sharmini Luther
'80.
Mary V. Reynolds, Little Rock, AR. Sweet Briar News,
Freshman Honors.
Susan P. Richeson, Madison Heights, VA. Interact,
Sweet Briar News, Freshman Honors. Daughter of Celia
Loving Richeson '58.
Margaret L. Walz, Fanwood, NJ. FOCUS, Interact,
Concert Choir, Brownie leader. Freshman Honors.
Kelly G. Yeadon, Atlanta, GA. Interact, French Club,
FOCUS, Sweet Briar News, Freshman Honors.
Class of 1982: Freshmen
Linda Susan Barrow, Lynnfield Senior High School,
Lynnfield, MA.
Ethel H. Ogden Burwell, University-Liggett School,
Grosse Point, MI. Daughter of Ethel Ogden Burwell
'58.
Crystal Lee Conger, North Posey High School, Evans-
ville, IN.
Anne Venable Edmunds, Norfolk Christian High School,
Virginia Beach, VA. Cousin of Harriet Venable Coons
'69.
Katherine Joan Egli, Dawson County High School, Glen-
dive, MT.
Deborah Renee Harvey, Nelson Co. High School, Loving-
ston, VA.
Lizbeth Lynn Kauffman, Hawken School, Shaker
Heights, OH.
Deborah Elizabeth Price, Oak wood High School,
Dayton, OH.
Martha Lee Watson, Brookstone School, Columbus,
GA. Sister of Patsy Lynn Watson '74.
Wai Chee Yee, Billings Senior High School, Billings,
MT.
Volume 49, Number 1; Fall 1978
Editor: Catharine Fitzgerald Booker '47
Managing Editor: Ann Morrison Reams '42
Class Notes Editor: Carolyn Bates
Alumnae Magazine
Fall 1978
2 Something More Than Muddling
Through
4 We Don't Mess Around
by Bonnie Jackson
6 Conversations with Sweet Briar
Musicians
by Blair Graves Smith '48
10 See Anybody You Know?
11 Alumnae Notices
12 Briar Patches
18 Profiles: Three Women of the Year
26 Journalism and the Liberal Arts:
Two Comments
by Elder Witt Wellborn '67 and by
Susan Harte '61
28 The International Flavor of
Sweet Briar
by Carolyn McKee
30 Chemistry is Alive and Well
by John McClenon
32 A Comprehensive Exhibit
34 The Editor's Room
36 They Wear the Rose
Issued four times yearly; fall, winter, spring and summer by Sweet
Briar College. Second class postage paid at Sweet Briar. Virginia
24595. Telephone (804) 381-5513. Printed by J.P. Bell, Lynch-
burg, VA. Send form 3579 to Sweet Briar College, Box E, Sweet
Briar. VA 24595.
COVER: Meg Richards '78 takes Turning Point, one of Sweet
Briar's school mounts, over a jump in a recent event. Through the
years. Sweet Briar's Harriet Rogers Riding Center has attracted
student riders from far and near — and its teaching program has
given them the kind of rigorous training that makes champions
This fall, the Riding Center will host the first reunion of Sweet
Briar riders, as alumnae and their horses return to campus (ad-
vance registration required). They will find that their College has
indeed been well represented ( see page two).
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Something More
Than Muddling
Through
Photographs b.v Kathleen Kavanaugh '74
Eve Baskowitz '78 on "Think Snow"
The rains came and turned the turf to soggy mud,
but it was a great day for Sweet Briar.
Our riding team captured the first Invitational Inter-
collegiate Riding Championship, March 26, with the
highest number of points (1182), winning over the
Averett College team (1053.5 points).
Forty riders from 14 colleges and universities com-
peted in the Invitational Intercollegiate Three-Phase
Riding Championship, which was sponsored by the Na-
tional Riding Committee and held at Sweet Briar. Judges
were Marion Lee of Arlington, VA, a National Riding
Committee No. 1 rank rider and a National judge and
Melanie Smith of Germantown, Tenn., a leading ama-
teur rider and successful trainer of hunters, jumpers
and event horses.
Top scores were as follows:
Dressage
1. Sweet Briar College (4%)
2. Averett College (450.5)
3. Lake Erie College (444)
4. University of Virginia (434.5)
5. Radford College (419)
6. United States Military Academy (412)
Cross Country
1. Sweet Briar College (686)
2. Wood Junior College (651)
3. United States Military Academy (621)
4. Radford College (614)
5. Averett College (613)
6. University of Virginia (604)
Written
1. Meg Richards, Sweet Briar College (92)
2. Eve Baskowitz. Sweet Briar College (88)
3. Jamie Planck, Sweet Briar College (85.5)
4. Cathy Schreiber, Lake Erie College (85)
5. Dean Lindholm, United States Military
Academy (80)
6. Pat Ness, University of Minnesota (80)
The three phases — dressage sportif. a modified cross-
country course and a stadium jumping course — were
patterned after the Olympic three-day riding competi-
tion. "Dressage means schooling," explained a NRC
National Judge. "Dressage shows the rider's knowledge
and the discipline and level of schooling of the horse.
You can pretty well tell by the end of the first day of
dressage how the horse and rider will perform the sec-
amie Planck '81 on "Tudor Swagger"
Kathryn Leonard '79 on "Buttercup"
Meg Richards '78 on "Turning Point"
ond day in the cross country and stadium jumping."
Paul D. Cronin. Sweet Briar's Director of Riding and
coach for the team, said that "in clinching the victory
our team finished first in the Dressage Sportif and Cross
Country Jumping Phases as well as having four clean
rounds in the Stadium Phase and taking first, second
and third places in the optional written phase. Our riders
worked hard as a team in preparing for the National
Championship and we are all proud of their success.
High Point Individual Rider honors went to Jamie
Planck '81. a rider of natural ability and one of the best-
prepared new students to enter Sweet Briar. During the
competition she racked up 424 points, followed by Jane
Sibley of Lake Erie College with 380 points."
Members of the Sweet Briar team have ten to 17
years of riding experience. Jamie Planck of
Prospect. KY, has been riding for more than ten years
and has been a successful junior competitor at "A" level
competitions on the East coast. Last year she took off
from school to ride with Nashville horse trainer Otis
Brown. Jr. She has been on the Florida horse show : cir-
cuit but had never trained for dressage before going to
Sweet Briar. "This was my first time at three-phase
competition." Jamie said.
Kathryn Leonard '79 of Decatur. Ala., is a No. 3 Na-
tional Riding Committee rated rider. She has success-
fully competed in horse shows and horse trials, includ-
ing Darby's Folly's Horse Trials, the Purcellville Horse
Trials and the Farmington Horse Show.
Meg Richards 78 of Williamsburg. VA, a No. 2 NRC
ranked rider, was president of the Sweet Briar Student
Riding Council. A graduate of the Potomac Horse Cen-
ter's Horsemaster's Program, Meg has successfully
competed in local, recognized and intercollegiate horse
shows as well as in hunter trials, hunter paces and horse
trials. She also has participated in assistant judging of
hunter competition.
Eve Baskowitz '78 of St. Louis has successfully com-
peted in hunter trials and horse shows through the "A"
level, including the Washington International, Madison
Square Garden, the Penn National, Chagrin Valley
P.H. A. and the Prix de Villes.
The National Riding Committee is sponsored by two
divisions of the American Alliance for Health, Physical
Education and Recreation: the National Association
for Sports and Physical Education and the National As-
sociation for Girls' and Women's Sports. The NRC
sponsors clinics and rating centers throughout the coun-
try, with a goal of establishing Olympic standards in the
teaching of riding.
We Don't Mess Around
by Bonnie Jackson
Before she came to Sweet Briar as coach and director of aquatics,
Bonnie Jackson won the Connecticut Amateur Athletic Union Cham-
pionship as a Yale student. She coached the Yale Swim Club and
Yale's women's varsity swim team. Bonnie says, "Swimming is good
for just about anything. It is good for heart rate and breath and builds
up cardiorespiratory endurance. Swimming tones up the whole body.
It doesn't place undue stress on joints; it loosens up and relaxes the en-
tire body. A regular swimming program builds you mentally and
physically. Start out slowly and don't overdo it if you're not in shape.
Begin with four to eight laps and increase the number of laps you swim
daily. Remember, swimming is fantastic exercise and helps remove
inches from your hips and really tones up your hind quarters!"
• • \m/ e Don't Mess Around" was the favorite
* r cheer of the Sweet Briar swim team this
year, and it turned out to be more than a rallying cry
when the team won the Virginia State Small College
Women's Swim Title in SBC's first year of varsity com-
petition.
We thought last fall that we would be lucky to win
even one meet. After all, SBC's new six-lane, 25-meter
swimming pool had just been opened; before that, we
used a lake on campus for water sports and recreation.
Our swimmers, if they had had competitive experience
at all, were former summer club swimmers who had not
practiced in years. Knowing that we lacked both con-
ditioning and experience, we faced a substantial chal-
lenge. Could we find a group of Sweet Briar women dedi-
cated to stick it out through five months of hard training?
We met our challenge. After going undefeated against
all five of our opponents, we surpassed our closest com-
petitor, Mary Washington College, by 134 points in the
State Small College Meet in February. We scored most
heavily in the longer-distance events, taking 40 percent
or more of the points in the 1 ,650 freestyle, 200 butter-
fly, 200 backstroke, 200 breaststroke, the 400 individual
medley and also in the diving events. The victory was a
total team effort with 19 of the 21 members scoring points.
How did all this happen in five months? First, we
are fortunate to have a beautiful pool. With its
one- and three-meter, maxi-flex diving boards, it is the
finest indoor short course facility in the state. A second
important factor was our ambitious training program.
We began with a dry-land conditioning and stroke-work
phase from mid-September through mid-October. With
intensive videotaping and stroke-analysis sessions, all
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This array of photographs l>> Kathleen Kavanagh '74 depicts man;
aspects of Sweet Briar's successful first season in aquatic competition:
"Swimmers to the block!" from the official starter induces visible
tension as the competitors prepare to cleave the mirror-like surface
(top photo). In the upper row of pictures, left to right: Ellen Quinn '78
porpoises down the 25-meter lane, on her way to another fast finish
in the butterfly event; Kim Wood '80 gets a good start on her lap of
the 200-meter relay; and Sigy Carlen '81 shows the kind of freestyle
form and speed that helped so often to put points on Sweet Briar's
side of the scoreboard. In the bottom row, left to right: two of
"Daniel's Divers" execute synchronized one-and-a-half forward somer-
saults in the pike position, Kim Horner '79 from the three-meter board,
Jill Steenhuis '80 from the one-meter; Pam Ramsdell '79 rests on a
lane marker after some grueling laps; the Sweet Briar team finishes
its victory cheer in a burst of the kind of enthusiastic spirit that kept it
going throughout the season, all the way to the championship.
our swimmers learned to do the four competitive strokes
correctly.
Then the hard work began: six days a week of stren-
uous two-hour sessions. Giving up Friday afternoons
and Sunday evenings for practice was something Sweet
Briar athletes were not used to! In January we added
morning sessions from 7: 15 to 8:45. Extra practices are
necessary to create a good team. The girls swam a total
of 8,000 meters, or the equivalent of five miles, on
double practice days; on single practice days they swam
three miles.
This excellent conditioning was a deciding factor in
the longer-distance events, where our swimmers came
through time after time. We could count on Ellen Quinn
'78, an average swimmer at the beginning of the year, to
win points consistently in the 200 butterfly, 200 back-
stroke and 400 individual medley events. Whitley Greene
'81 won the 100 freestyle; Gina Neilson '80 won the 1,600
freestyle; Mari Monahan '78 won the 200 breaststroke.
Divers Jill Steenhuis '80 and Kim Horner '79 also con-
tributed to the success of the team. Their achievements
are attributable to their own hard work and to the dedi-
cation of College Vice President Peter Daniel, who volun-
teered his time to coach them. At both Dartmouth and
The University, Daniel was an intercollegiate diver and
at one time ranked second in the Virginia intercollegiate
competition.
The key to Sweet Briar's swim team has been its spirit
and togetherness. The strength of our team consisted
not in the talent of a few swimmers but in the dedication
and enthusiasm of the group as a whole. Led by Captain
Sally Poison '78, team members inspired and encouraged
one another to keep going when at times the price of
commitment seemed too high. The supportive Sweet Briar
community also had a positive effect on the team psyche.
We had a Cinderella year. This is only a beginning.
Where do we go from here? With a year of experience
behind us and the prospect of more experienced swim-
mers joining our ranks, we can extend our capabilities
further next year. We won't mess around!
I
Conversations with Sweet Bria
by Blair Graves Smith '48
Instructor in piano at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, Blair Graves
Smith '48 says, "I've picked up any crazy job I could get, usually a
couple of them. I supervised elementary music in Roanoke for six
years after SBC; got a master's degree at the University of Michigan
and was music librarian at Michigan at the university FM station.
I did church choir work in Philadelphia, taught theory and piano at
Western College. Since it folded, Miami U. made the point it wanted
the buildings, not the faculty. I'm just getting back to college teaching
and have twenty-five private pupils plus a children's choir at church.
We also take roomers!"
Blair's husband Brenton is with the history department at Miami
University. Their son Kenneth is at W&L; Philip is at Miami and
Brenton, Jr., is in high school. At Sweet Briar Blair was a Bum Chum
and Head of the Choir. Blair is the daughter of the late Margaret
Burwell Graves '23 and the sister of Margaret Graves McClung '53.
Four years of music at Sweet Briar, and then what?
Where does the Sweet Briar musician go once the
choir, the Sweet Tones, the senior recital are done? How
does she feel about music five, ten, thirty years later?
These are some of the questions we talked about this
year with Sweet Briar musicians.
Why come to Sweet Briar and major in music? Most of
these individuals answer as a group: when they chose
Sweet Briar they planned to be mathematics, English
— even bio-physics — majors, or they had no plans. This
seems true not only for the majors of the '30's and '40's
but, oddly enough, also for the majors of the '60's and
'70's, a group that has been thoroughly exposed to voca-
tional guidance through the preparatory years. Though
some came to music by drifting, more often they felt they
were drawn to it as a major. One expressed what many
felt: "I didn't decide to major in music; it caught me."
The Sweet Briar musician has strong feelings about
the place of music in a liberal arts education. Its early
place in the seven liberal arts puts it alongside grammar,
rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy. Music
today is too frequently treated as a polite social grace.
A teacher at another Virginia college, discussing music
in the liberal arts curriculum, summed up his argument:
"It would be an unwholesome corruption of the liberal
arts curriculum to give academic credit for learning to
play the viola." To the Sweet Briar graduates who re-
member the hours of analysis, music history and com-
position as well as the applied music, this is ridiculous
and when asked whether they felt music belonged as a
liberal arts major the most common answer was "de-
finitely. " That word was generally followed by an excla-
mation point.
Diana Martin '75 commented: "Does English belong
in the liberal arts? Does history? What are the liberal
arts but the study of man's self definition and expres-
sion?" Lynne Gardner Miller '68 added: "Music ranks
with the sciences in discipline and excitement, a combi-
nation of precision, history and feeling."
Sweet Briar musicians unanimously agree that the
liberal arts curriculum should include music. The ques-
tion of whether a future professional musician belongs at
Sweet Briar provokes more discussion. By definition, the
liberal arts degree denies the total specialization that
the performer requires. By the small size of the program
the students are cut off from the stimulus that a larger
group of fellow students can give.
Musicians
Jessie Christie Cruger '62
began her continuing theat-
rical career as a freshman at
Sweet Briar; she was also in
the Senior Show, The Boy
Friend.
There are, however, many advantages to the Sweet
Briar experience as the Sweet Briar musician thinks
it over. To inject a personal note from Ohio: I have just
graded a large set of papers from students who perform
beautifully but cannot write a sentence or find the word
for what they want to say. The Sweet Briar musicians
articulate themselves forcefully. Is this due to the fact
they were required to take more than music and fresh-
man English?
Alumnae through the years value the camaraderie
established in the music department, whether it involved
early Sunday drives to arrive in time for choir or late
night sessions at the old white building and in Babcock.
Marian Dolan '76 remembers, too, the beauty of the
setting. "Sweet Briar is such a beautiful place to study
the arts. As much as I love the cultural advantages that
a city such as Boston affords, I also miss the quiet soli-
tude afforded to a musician on a campus out in the
middle of nature."
Those who lived under the 4-1-4 plan are enthusiastic
about its possibilities for music majors. Diana Martin
'75 wrote that the January term established almost a con-
servatory atmosphere allowing for specialization in lieder
or chamber music or for a period of undistracted musical
growth. Carolyn Ivey '77 remembers that it was Winter
Term that decided her on graduate school in music therapy.
No matter how the debate on the values of studying
music at a liberal arts college is settled, the musi-
cians valued most strongly the direct, almost tutorial
contact with a teacher that the music degree provides.
The faculty names change through the years and vary
with the individual's particular interest but the teachers
are all remembered with affection and gratitude. Jodie
Morgan Hartman '45 commented that certain pieces
still "bring back memories of my dear Miss Weaver
struggling along with me." When doing hymn arrange-
ments Martha Frye Nye '48 "always felt the heavy eye of
Mr. Zechiel waiting for me to dare to use parallel fourths
or fifths (which I did) or to take a leading tone home in-
appropriately (which I hope I didn't)." Virginia Chamb-
lin Greene '55, a chemistry Ph.D. who now builds harpsi-
chords, remembers Miss Umbreit's course as the most
useful and interesting class she has ever had. The names
of Mr. Gilpin, Miss Marik, Mr. Bricken occur frequently
in student recollections.
Another recollection that comes almost invariably and
with some lingering resentment was the problem of per-
formance for the music student. Who else in the College
(other than music, dance and theatre majors) must face
not only comprehensives but also a senior recital? What
other major field necessitates the day-in, day-out, week-
in and weekends, too, discipline that performance re-
quires? Susan Verbridge '76 summed it up: "There is no
way to fake it in performance as compared with cram-
ming for exams and writing a paper the night before it
is due. Day-to-day practice is the only possible way."
And what does the Sweet Briar musician do today
after that sort of program? Many who have no for-
mal employment in music value it as the best sort of col-
lege program. Edie Page Gill Breakell '45 wrote: "I am
now, and have been for six years, playing in a piano
group of twelve people. We do duo and some solo work.
This provides a lot of pleasures as well as the incentive
to practice and keep the fingers nimble." Gertrude Dally
Massie '22 still studies with Bruce Simonds. May Belle
Scott Rauch '62 feels "to have been a music major has
turned out to be one of the luckiest things I've ever done.
To be able to return to something as intellectually chal-
lenging and as enjoyable as the piano has been a real
treat."
The benefit of their music training to their children is
important to many. Laura Lee Grogan Crane '47 is able
to talk with her son, who is beginning his concert career.
Cornelia Loy Matson '58 finds her greatest pleasure to be
"seeing my children eagerly absorb my interest and take
it to more proficient levels." Maria Burroughs Livings-
ton '40 writes: "All four of my children are extremely
musical, playing various instruments (some by ear, some
by diligence) Sweet Briar has helped my career with
them tremendously."
Among many who use their musical training for the
community are Hedy Edwards Davenport '45, who is on
the board of the Chattanooga Symphony, and Martha
Rowan Hyder '48, who is associated with the Van
Cliburn competition. Ruth Garrett Preucel '49 has been
in charge of the concerts at the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts and for twenty years secretary of the Board of
Trustees at the New School of Music.
Quite expectedly, there are many teachers among
Sweet Briar musicians. Among those who have started
with a few pupils and thereafter formed piano studios
are Janice Fitzgerald Wellons '43, Anne Hill Edwards
'46, Joan Teetor Saxe '50, Sally Ann Twedell Bagley '67;
Judith Greer Schulz '61 teaches at Lynchburg College.
Jeanne Mclntyre Porter '73 teaches at the Greenwich
Academy, Lucy Dennington '73 teaches elementary
music. And they like it. Janice Wellons wrote: "I taught
first at St. Mary's College and then stopped while the
children were young. When I started back I found a
whole new life opening for me. Where I had been teach-
ing college students, I now had young beginners and
early advanced students. After twenty years I still find it
as exciting and rewarding as ever."
Some combine teaching with church choir work:
Kathryn Drumheller Pixley '63, Sister Jeannette Pills-
bury '72, Ann Royce Moore '68, Helen Grae/f Ellerman
'46. The latter writes: "I was frustrated when I finished
Sweet Briar because I knew a lot but had very few practi-
cal skills in my field. My graduate degree at Union
Theological Seminary gave me those skills, and I look on
the combination of schools as the best possible. My situa-
tion here is unique: The congregation is appreciative,
the choirs are responsive, the organ is good. My husband
is a harpsichordist. At home where he teaches piano we
have two pianos, a virginal, a clavichord, a one-manual
Neupert harpsichord, and a two-manual one. Our other
concert grand harpsichord is in the choir room at the
church because we have no room for it at home. Life is a
process of continuing education . . . such as embarking
on a music camp experience for forty third-through-sixth
graders for a week. It is really great to be doing what you
can do ... to enjoy it . . . and to earn your living doing
it."
Top to bottom, photos at left: Anne Hill Edwards '46 and one of
her pupils. Melody Nichols; Jean Teetor Saxe '50 and her sixth
grader pupil, Kathv Mitchell; Jeanne Mclntyre Porter '73; and
Helen Graeff Ellerman '46, directing a bell-ringing ensemble.
There are many performers in the group, and some
of them combine it with teaching: Elizabeth
Gawthrop Riely '67, Lynne Gardner Miller '68, Margot
LaRoque Lowrey '52, Barbara Darn all Clinton '56. Some
have combined music with the theater: Glory Sims
McRae '67 works professionally in stock theaters and
receives glowing reviews. Jessie Christie Cruger '62 works
at the Empire Theater, in addition to writing songs for
recording. Teaching combines with accompanying for
Julia Hunt Nave '63 and Diana Martin '75.
And what other doors are open to Sweet Briar musi-
cians aside from the traditional ones of teaching and
performing? Lots of interesting ones, from our conver-
sations.
Mary Pease Fleming '51 accompanies dance classes
at Dance, Ltd., and the Richmond Academy of Ballet.
She wrote: "Pluses for the job are the pleasure of block-
ing out time to play, the growth of musical skills such as
sight-reading, phrasing, expanded repertoire, and con-
tact with the young people who are interested in dance."
Carolyn Ivey '77 and Martha Frye Nye '48 work in
music therapy. Martha's title is Social Service Designer
at a nursing home. She wrote: "Thursday afternoon is
our usual sing-a-long and I've learned some hymns you'd
never hear in an Episcopal or Lutheran church. Volun-
teers come in to entertain the residents . . . guitar, banjo,
and one woman who plays the saw with a violin bow . . .
really a beautiful sound."
Jane Illingworth Pierce '69 was employed as cataloger
in the Yale Music Library until the birth of her son.
Deciding to stay home and give piano lessons, she com-
bines this with the job of factotum to Ralph Kirkpatrick,
the Scarlatti authority. "It's very demanding work re-
quiring reading and writing in French. German, Italian,
as well as sightreading at the harpsichord. It's a chal-
lenge, and he's good to work for."
Linda Reynolds '66 works for the Executive Secretary
of the Kennedy Center in Washington and loves the con-
tacts she's made with the Center's performing artists.
Ann Young Bloom '59 works with the Philadelphia
Orchestra: "I have the job of coordinating the three
series of concerts for students given annually by the
orchestra and running the student auditions. I also
handle group promotions. At one point I did all the ad-
vertising and editing of the orchestra's material to all
the tour cities. I finally woke up one day and decided to
go back to my sanity and my 'kitty concerts'. When busy,
I am in every day. When not, I'm not!"
Nancy Powell French '62 is publishing music: "To
take a tune out of mid-air and set it in harmony so that
it can be sung with an accompaniment is the most won-
derful and creative use of notation I've found so far."
To return to our first question: four years of music,
and then what? Why, then, most of us go right on in
music taking what we learned and adding to it year by
year. Once "caught," caught for a life-time.
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Top to bottom, photos at right: Betsy Bagley, daughter of Sally
Tweedell Bagley '67, shown in earlier Alumnae Magazine photo
on the right; Diana Martin '75; Jane Illingworth Pierce '69;
Mary Pease Fleming '51 and a budding ballerina.
Here we go again. All of
these treasures were taken
from our archives of the
Fifties but there our knowl-
edge ends. We shall wel-
come your identifications
of people, time and occasion
— and enjoy even more the
controversy certain to follow
See Anybody You Know?
NOTICE TO GROUPS
OF ALUMNAE — CLUBS
OR OTHERWISE:
If you are looking for a different program
this year, one which might appeal to a broader
group than the regulars, why not invite some-
one from the College? There are several types
of programs available for consideration:
President Whiteman, Dean Patt, Ann Mor-
rison Reams, Director of the Alumnae Asso-
ciation, and other administrators welcome
invitations to talk about almost any topic
pertaining to Sweet Briar.
The Traveling Faculty program includes
lectures on a variety of subjects as well as
piano or choral concerts. During the course
of the year, many faculty members attend
professional meetings which are held in all
areas of the country, and frequently can
arrange to stop off for a meeting with alum-
nae. Some might be available for Sweet Briar
Day in December. The Modern Language
Association and the American Philological
Association usually meet in a metropolitan
area during that week, and someone from
the College usually attends. Dr. Gerald Berg.
Ass't Prof, of History, will be in San Francisco
Dec. 27-30. Dr. Michael Richards, Assoc.
Prof, of History, will be in Omaha on Thurs-
day, Oct. 12, and will consider a stop-off in
St. Louis or Chicago. If you are interested,
write in the fall for additional possibilities.
One of the newest and most interesting
programs is in conjunction with a grant from
the National Endowment for the Humanities
to develop and support interdisciplinary pro-
grams in the humanities. One of several
professors can present a demonstration lec-
ture, usually with slides, on such topics as a
special aspect of European Civilization, Asian
Studies or Environmental Studies.
Drs. Richards and Lee Peipho, Assoc. Prof,
of English, have developed a correspondence
course which some groups will find interest-
ing. It is made up of one lecture delivered
in person, a reading list and guides for
additional discussions.
A request to the Alumnae Office will bring
you detailed information about any of the
above.
Alumnae
Notices
In Memoriam
Katharyn Norris Kelley '26 (Mrs. Stillman
F„ II) died Sunday, May 14, 1978, at "Har-
dendale," her home in Ivy, VA. She is survived
by her husband, Stillman Frances Kelley II;
three daughters, Priscilla K. Sadler (Mrs. John
M.) of Massapequa, N.Y.; Miss Meta Kelley
of Ivy; and Miss Edith K. Kelley of Atlanta,
Ga.; one son, Stillman Randolph Kelley,
of Sanford, Fla; and four grandchildren.
"Kay" was the first Executive Secretary of
the Sweet Briar Alumnae Association. Begin-
ning as part-time Secretary in 1926, she
assumed the job full-time the following year
and continued in office until 1929. She was
greatly admired and beloved by alumnae,
faculty and staff.
The Alumnae Association extends deepest
sympathy to her family.
Recent Deaths
Mrs. Theodore Reeves (Dorothy Thompson
'14) no date
Miss Henrietta Anderson '19 May 3, 1978
Mrs. Melvin R. Coleman (Mary Johns '20)
no date
Mrs. Pierre F. Hill (Juliet Selby '25) April 29,
1978
Mrs. John W. Franklin (Ruth Taylor '25)
March 1976
Mrs. Robert A. Murphey (Margaret Eaton
'27) no date
Miss Lois Ritchie '28 no date
Miss Mary R. Buick '33 September 5, 1977
Mrs. Edwin Shuffle, Jr. (Virginia Bobbin '35)
April 29, 1978
Mrs. Leslie E. Antonius (Jean Bird '36) no
date
Mrs. W. Howard Palmer (Margaret Hite '37)
no date
Mrs. W. C. Stevens, Jr. (Sara Oberlin '55) no
date
Mrs. Pamela H. Oberlander (Pamela Henry
'59 April 10, 1978
Miss Susan Gibaud '65 December 1977
Mrs. Mel Farrar (Effie Whitten AC) Decem-
ber 23. 1976
Mrs. Con T Ball (Con Thompson '29) June
1978
Miss Catherine Coleman '42 July 4, 1978
Mrs. James A. McNaughton (Jane Hamilton
'42). December 6, 1977
Mrs. Willard Bunn, III (Mary Ann Swaney
'66) June 1978
Alumnae Nominations
For Executive Board of the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Association
The Nominating Committee of the Alum-
nae Association submits the following slate
of well-qualified alumnae to serve in the
following positions on the Executive Board:
Secretary: Tabb Thornton Farinholt '59,
Ware Neck, Va.
Alumnae Representative Chairman: Elizabeth
Trueheart Harris '49, Richmond, Va.
Continuing Education Chairman: Elizabeth
McGuire Appel '64, Winston-Salem, N.C.
National Bulb Chairman: Gwen Speel Kap-
lan '60, Wilton, Conn.
Regional Chairmen:
I. Mary Ann Mellen Root '53, Wilton.
Conn.
V. Pamela Burwell Benton '68, Savannah,
Ga.
In accordance with Article X, Section 2d of
the Constitution of the Alumnae Association,
additional names for nominees for the Execu-
tive Board may be added to the ballot if sent
to the Director of the Alumnae Association
accompanied by fifteen signatures of mem-
bers of the Association, and written consent
of the nominees, within two weeks after the
slate is published. If no additional nomina-
tions are made, the Director of the Alumnae
Association is instructed to cast a ballot to
elect the above slate.
In accordance with the constitution of the
Alumnae Association, the Executive Board
has selected Alice Cary Farmer Brown '59 of
Harrods Creek, KY, as the candidate for the
Board of Overseers of Sweet Briar College.
Her name was published in the Winter 1977-
78 issue of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Maga-
zine. It was the privilege of the members to
add names to the proposed slate, under con-
ditions set forth in the constitution, by March
21, 1978. Since no names were sent to the
office of the Director of the Alumnae Associa-
tion by that Date, this ballot is presented.
SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE
ASSOCIATION OFFICIAL BALLOT
I vote for the candidate named for alumna
member of the Board of Overseers.
Signed
Return to: Alumnae Office, Sweet Briar, Va.
24595
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Academy and Specials
Helen Browne Hobart is still the farmer and
compulsive tree planter. Last year she received
a bronze award for forestry in Central Wiscon-
sin from the Good Soil and Water Use con-
servation group.
Eleanor Furman Hudgens, now living in a
residential hotel in Greenville, SC, attended
the SBC Commencement in 1977. when her
niece, Elizabeth Conway, graduated.
Juliette Kirker Gregg writes from Hacken-
sack, NJ, that she has two married grandsons
and two great-grandchildren, Lynn Elliott (3)
and Mark Elliott (9 mos), living in Virginia
Beach.
Jessie Dixon Sayler sees Bessie Wheless
Mercer and Florence Cann Seaman often. She
points out that she spent two happy years at
Sweet Briar and that her daughters-in-law,
Betsy Miller Sayler '55 and Wyline Chapman
Sayler '45, are both Briarites.
Carina Eaglesfield Milligan, a widow since
1959, continues her practice of architecture in
New Canaan, CT. In addition to her
profession and constant travels abroad, she
engages in work in her gardens and activities
with the Garden Club, country club, etc.
We are sorry to learn that Georgena Sellar
Erck, who lives in a nursing home in Florida is
now blind.
Jean Harris, who lives in Camelot Hall Nur-
sing Home, Harrisonburg, VA, suffered a
stroke in 1976 but is able to talk and walk with
assistance. She enjoys news from Sweet Briar.
Julia Cleland, a retired kindergarten teacher,
is a very sick patient in another Camelot Hall
Nursing Home, this one in Lynchburg, VA.
She also is mentally alert, but cannot walk.
Eudalia White Lohrke has just returned to
New Jersey after a visit to her son and his
family in Santa Barbara, CA. While there she
welcomed her first great-grandchild. She is
still on the Board of the House of the Good
Shepherd and enjoys bridge, music, and
growing and arranging garden flowers.
We are sorry to report that Flora Davisson
Ward's husband died March 26, 1978.
Fanita Ferris Welch lives in a cottage at the
Presbyterian Home, Evanston, IL, where she
enjoys many friends from Winnetka days. She
went to Switzerland and the Italian Lakes last
fall and to Florida last winter. She has two
married daughters and four grandchildren.
Josephine Johnson Smith's granddaughter
Kathy Arnold '64 was married in April, 1977.
Anna Barley Baldwin and husband W.
Frazier celebrated their 64th wedding an-
niversary on April 15. They enjoy living in
Penick Home, the Episcopal Home for the
Aging in Southern Pines, NC.
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Nannie Claibourne Hudson, Amherst, VA,
had a difficult year, losing her husband in
December and undergoing a gall bladder
operation herself. But at age 85 she is not
giving up!
Martha Massie, Lynchburg, VA, got a prize
for best landscape at the Southern States
Association; she also does portraits. She is
able to assist three helpless friends and enjoys
having her great nephew stay with her during
his vacations.
Olive Cole Hogan, who lives in a lovely
retirement home in Canton, OH, has grand-
children and six great-grandchildren.
Eleanor Stone Gates, a widow since late
1974, went to Ireland with the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Association in 1975 and to Copen-
hagen this spring, and she takes winter
trips each year. She also serves as president of
the Friends of the Library in Mt. Dora, FL.
Elizabeth P. Cocke lives in an apartment in
Richmond, VA, with many friends nearby.
She enjoys watching her six great-grand
nephews and nieces grow. She loves to travel
and in the spring of 1977 made a trip to Egypt.
Louisa Hubbard Smith was thrilled to see
her granddaughter graduate from Harvard; a
grandson graduated from Princeton two years
ago. Now she is back at her home in Amherst
County — to chop dandelions, she says.
Elizabeth H. Mills, a Bryn Mawr alumna, is
now retired and living with her younger sister
in Oxford, OH. They do volunteer work and
try to travel some during the winters.
Katherine Page writes that she is still living
in Berryville, VA, and enjoying the Sweet
Briar publications.
Though she was at Sweet Briar a very short
time, Ellis Meredith is still interested in the
College. She is retired from teaching English
and math in the Cincinnati Public Schools.
Virginia Hatch Chase spent most of the past
year in the hospital and has done even more
reading than usual — especially re-reading old
favorites. Her current interest in Arabs
prompts her to recommend Feuchwanger's
Raquel, about 12th century Spain.
Jessie Darden Christian and her husband
celebrated their 60th anniversary this year.
She says that their two children and eight
grandchildren are a central part of their lives,
and she is especially pleased to have a grand-
daughter, Antoinette Christian, who is a 1978
Sweet Briar graduate.
Bess Kell Blair, now 84, lives with her sister,
89, in their family home in Wichita Falls, TX.
She has two children: a daughter in
Washington, at Dunbarton Oaks, and a son in
California with three daughters and four
grandchildren — Bess' great-grandchildren.
She drives a car, plays bridge, is concerned
with national issues, and still enjoys life.
Mary Herd Moore, Sherman, TX, has eight
great-grandchildren and hopes at least one
will go to Sweet Briar. Her daughter Betty
Moore Stowers '38 and her niece Harriet
Daniel Herd '38 were back at the College for
Reunion.
Marjorie Lindsay Coon, Dallas, PA, recalls
the 1976 SBC graduation, when her daughter
Lindsay Coon Robinson '49 came back to
receive her diploma after 27 years. Since her
oldest daughter Scottie '73 was also present,
there were three generations of alumnae en-
joying the occasion.
Katherine Withers Hamilton, Gloucester,
VA, thinks maybe she should have attended
veterinary school, since she has five Irish
Wolfhounds, two Pekes, and a coon cat. Ex-
cept for arthritis, she is doing well for 82.
Katrina Stout Wright, Corsicana, TX,
recalls her days at Sweet Briar, when Miss
Benedict was president. Dr. Harley was there,
and Maude Taylor Robbins was her room-
mate.
Edwin Hensel Smith writes from Baltimore
that they are alive and kicking and doing very
well.
Julie Russell Holmes is retired from nursing
and living in a retirement home in Shelburne,
VT. She is well and busy with crafts, etc.
Sarah Smith White, Allentown, PA, spent a
month and a half in London visiting two of her
sons, Ralph E. and Palmer J. James. They had
a family reunion in Gstaad, Switzerland, over
Christmas week. Sarah is pleased to have her
youngest son. Dr. E. Anthony James, as
English professor at Lehigh, and his wife and
their children living nearby. She fills her days
interestingly with Church and Historical
Society activities, bridge and visiting friend
and relatives — abroad and in the States.
Clara Belle Baker Backus is 83Vi and is in
Azalealand Nursing Home in Savannah, GA.
Helen Link Weidely, Mount Airy, NC, has
two daughters and six grandchildren; one
grandson lives with her. Though retired, she
sometimes substitutes in a local nursery
school, baby sits, and does hospital auxiliary
work every week. She enjoys antiques and has
numerous "collections." Her travel includes
winters in Florida, a May reunion with old
friends in Indiana and an August visit in Con-
necticut with her younger daughter.
Virginia Connell Bloom writes that her
husband remains a bed patient in the con-
valarium in the First Community Village in
Columbus, OH, where she has an apartment.
They expect to be great-grandparents in
August.
Mary-Martha Armstrong McClary lives in
the smaller house she had built next to her old
1810 one when her husband died in 1968. In
spite of arthritis, she still enjoys living in the
country and especially likes seeing the horses
kept in the near-by pasture by her youngest
daughter and her husband, who live in the old
house. Mary-Martha was in the Class of 1920
at Smith College with Carol Rice, retired SBC
physician.
Helen R. Duke, who still lives in the same
house in Charlotte in which she was born, says
arthritis bothers her a bit, but she tries to
remember the Cheerful Cherub doggerel :
Although old age is creeping on.
To all its troubles I'm resigned.
I may have rheumatism of the joints
I won't have rheumatism of the mind!
1913
1921
Secretary
Sue Hardie Bell (Mrs. William T.). 57 Union
St., Montclair.NJ 07042
Dorothy (Doss) Swan Lent and Rude cele-
brated their 60th wedding last year by sailing
tor Bermuda. She says she has had to give up
playing golf (can't walk fast enough) but still
likes to go to the club and have lunch with
the girls. She has a two-year-old great-grand-
daughter.
Lucile Marshall Boethelt enjoys life in her
retirement home in Winter Park, FL. Two
grandchildren are also in the South: a grand-
daughter, married and living in Atlanta, and
a grandson at Stetson U. in Deland, FL. Her
daughters suffered from snow last winter in
Hartford, CT, and Shaker Heights, OH.
Florence Coffin Gillem has sold her house
in Birmingham and gone to live in a residen-
tial hotel in Greenville. SC. near Florence and
Jim. grandchildren, and three great-grand-
children.
I have been in the hospital two weeks after
a fall. I am better, but can't sit up much. Best
of wishes for all of '13!
1917
Secretary
Mary (Polly) Bissel Ridler (Mrs. Earl S.), 2401
Pennsylvania Ave.. Apt. 402, Wilmington.
DE 19806
Fund Agent and Estate Planning Represen-
tative
Jane Henderson, Forest, VA 24551
There are 11 graduates in the class of 1917,
of whom eight are still living. Five of us at-
tended our 60th reunion last May. It was
decided to have no more reunions, but to
keep in touch through a round-robin letter.
I started this letter last June, but so far it has
not come back to me. I have traced it through
Ruth Mcllravy Logan, but can get no re-
sponse from the rest of you. Please come
across and send me your news.
I do know that Henrietta Crump Harrison
has moved to a retirement apartment in
Richmond. Rachel Lloyd Holton sold her
house this past year and is living in an apart-
ment in Toledo. Ruth Mcllravy Logan lives
in a retirement apartment in Oakland. CA.
(Catherine Browne Camlin was in our class
only a year. Then she transferred to the U. of
Wisconsin, where she met William Camlin,
whom she married. They have three married
daughters, 10 grandchildren, and one great-
grandson.
Margaret Gibson Bowman lives in a retire-
ment hotel in Bridgeport, CT. She spends two
months each winter in Bermuda and ten
weeks in the summer in Maine.
Earl and I have just returned from three
weeks in the South — two in Mississippi, near
Biloxi. where I had hoped to make contact
with Genie Steele Hardy in Columbus, but
did not have a chance as we were with friends.
We went on to Florida to visit our son Tom
and family for another week. As octogenarians
we both are doing fairly well.
Secretary
Gertrude Pauly Crawford (Mrs. Robert W.)
839 Cook Rd., Grosse Pointe Woods. Ml
48236
Fund Agent
Edith Durrell Marshall (Mrs. Edward C),
5733 Kugler Mill Rd., Apt. A, Indian Creek
Village, Cincinnati. OH 45236
Gertrude Anderson likes winter, but with
68 inches of snow and staying busy shovel-
ling since December, she thinks this is just
too much. "I'll be looking forward to hearing
how the rest of our class spent the winter."
Ruth Geer Boice finally vacated an old
home of 65 years in June. She is now enjoy-
ing retirement living in very comfortable
surroundings — no house worries!
Ruth Simpson Carrington has been at
Sea View. Bal Harbour. FL, since mid-Decem-
ber enjoying old friends.
Nellie McCaa Cole had a wonderful six
weeks visit last summer at home in Virginia
Beach. There she met her first great-grand-
child. She still lives in Shreveport, LA, with
her son and is looking forward to a visit in
April from her sister Mary and her grand-
son, his wife and baby.
Florence Ives Hathaway and Lloyd are in
good health. They spend their time in Mas-
sachusetts and Maine in the summer and
go to Florida in November to spend the winter
at Port Charlotte. This winter they enjoyed
a cruise to Jamaica. Haiti and the Dominican
Republic. Florence took a course on Florida
birds and found it a real pleasure.
Francese Evans Ives is busy with church
work and continues to be active in the
A.A.U.W.. attending international relations
and drama study groups. She does some writ-
ing as a member of two literary organiza-
tions. Concerts, theatre and museum exhibi-
tions continue to be part of her happy life.
Her chief joy lies in the fact that her daughter
Jo lives close by and her son and his young
family nearby, having returned to New Jersey
after spending several hectic years in Beirut
and Saudi Arabia. Francese spends every
summer with her daughter vacationing in
Long Island.
Edith Durrell Marshall spent Christmas
with her daughter Ann in Alexandria. Her
summers are spent at her home on Lake
Leelanaro, MI. This winter she spent some
time in Florida, with a short stay at the Gulf
Stream Hotel in Lake Worth, where I had
a nice visit with her. Then she went on to
Naples to visit with an old friend. While there
she saw Gertrude Dally Massie. Eleanor
Horned Arp and Dody Von Maur Crampton.
They all had a great time.
Lette McLemore Matthews is on the go all
the time — plays bridge and mah-jongg. en-
joys two garden clubs and does church work.
She just returned from a week-end at the
Chamberlain Hotel. Fort Monroe. With six
widows she plans to go to New York in April
on a museum package deal. Lette Shonp
Dixon got back home from a two-month
stay with her sister in Albany. GA. where she
was wined and dined, served by a butler and
a maid. She says she was "spoiled rotten."
Hildegard Flanner Monhoff was busy
working on her contribution to The Unknown
Paintings of Kay Nielsen, with elegy or pre-
face by Hildegard. (Ballentine Book, Peacock
Press)
Madelon Shidler Olney and Elliott spent
Christmas in Moorestown, NJ, to be with
Lynn, their daughter, and her family. From
New Jersey they drove to Marco Island in
Florida, where they stayed until April.
Dorothy Job Robinson sends greetings.
She had the misfortune of a broken hip and
spent some months using a walker. Her sister
Elizabeth visited her. Dotty plans a P and O
Cruise to New Orleans sometime this year.
Ophelia Short Seward had hoped to go to
S.B. for the dedication of the Carillon but
couldn't make it. Her granddaughter Kathrvn
VickisattheU.ofN.C.
Maynette Rozelle Stephenson's daughter
Betsy Bachman wrote from Irvine, CA. that
Maynette is doing just fine with the exception
of recovering from recent knee surgery to
relieve her rheumatic arthritis. She is present-
ly in a convalescent hospital but mail will
reach her in care of Betsy, 12 Butterfield.
Irving, CA 92714.
Marion Shafer Wadhams has just re-
turned from a delightful cruise through the
Panama Canal. She says. "Read The Path
Between Two Seas by McCullough if you are
confused about our future."
Elizabeth Claxton Lewis writes that she still
remembers her year at Sweet Briar as one of
the best.
It was such fun hearing from you. I am
very well, enjoying summers in Wisconsin
and winters in Florida. In the spring and
fall I enjoy my daughter and her family here
in Grosse Pointe.
1925
Secretary
Cordelia Kirkendall Barricks (Mrs. Arthur
A.), 100 Bay Place, Apt. 2101. Oakland. CA
94610
You will see that I have moved after 35
years in a beloved old home. It was too large
and too much responsibility for me alone and
in a deteriorating neighborhood. Two young
men bought it and love it and are keeping the
home and garden up beautifully. I am happy
in my new locale, an Episcopal Retirement
home. I have a gorgeous view of Lake Merritt.
the Bay Bridge, Mt. Tamalpais and the Berk-
ley Hills. Ruth Taylor Franklin has also
moved in Pittsburgh. Hope, Ruth, you'll enjoy
health and happiness in your new abode.
Time marches on. Two of us have become
great grandmothers: Woodisfi'nc/i Hudson
and Margaret Hogue Pfautz for the second
time. Congratulations to both. Margaret had
plans for a trip this year to Athens and Cairo,
where she will visit her second son. who is
Defense Attache in Cairo. She said Jim would
enjoy seeing any of his mother's classmates.
Woodis and her husband had planned a three-
week trip to Switzerland last September, but
unfortunately Ted became ill. Hope all is
well now.
Virginia Burke Miller and James cele-
brated their Golden anniversary in December
1976 in Ft. Myer Beach. FL. at the home of
their daughter-in law's mother. Their son
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David and his wife Anne and five children
were there as well as another son, James K.
Miller. Ill, and his wife Alma. This must
have been a very happy occasion.
Giddy Kinsley Whitehead urged me to
visit her in Amherst in apple blossom time.
I wish I could do it but have to recover from
taxes and buying into St. Paul's Towers. How
about it in 1980. when I hope to attend our
55th reunion? We hope 1978 will be a better
year for Giddy. She has such concern for
her son who in 1977 was in and out of the
hospital all year and as of December is an out
patient in four clinics. Giddy herself caught
her heel in a rug while carrying a log and was
thrown into an open fire but miraculously
escaped serious burns and has fully recovered.
She was so proud that the Amherst alumnae
gave S 1.000.00 to S.B.C. They raised this by
having a house tour each spring. Amherst
girls can no longer go to S.B.C. tuition free,
because of the too great expense to the college.
Louise Wolf Arnold still summers in
their beautiful large old home in Nantucket
and winters in Palm Beach. She has become
quite an artist. Last summer she sold four
pictures and had two commissions. Her son
Fritz from Mallorca was living in a studio on
the waterfront in Nantucket. Bob. Jr., and
wife and four children live in Nantucket all
winter. Mollie, her daughter, lives on Long
Island and has a passion for riding and jump-
ing.
Romayne Schooler Ferenbach is still in her
apartment in New York, but not able to travel
as much as formerly, because of arthritis . .
She isn't quite ready to move into a retire-
ment home, but is interested enough in one
in Princeton. NJ. to have made a down pay-
ment.
Ruth McILravy Logan '17 and I went on
a very rainy day, to the Sweet Briar Day
meeting at the home of Patty Sykes Treadwell
'58 in Ross. We couldn't complain of the
rain, which was so badly needed then. There
were 12 in attendance in Patty's hospitable
home. We had a great discussion, and it was
wonderful to have Lee Carollo. a senior at
S.B.C. — so knowledgeable. Ruth is consider-
ing moving into a retirement home when her
lease is up in July on her beautiful apartment
on Lake Merritt. I can recommend the Towers
highly. It is an old folks' home in age, but not
in spirit. I have never been as social.
I am planning to go to my oldest grand-
daughter's wedding in June in Oak Harbor.
WA. She has chosen to be married at her
fiance's home so as to have a garden wedding
by the ocean. Lana is a speech pathologist
in the Yakima, WA, school system, and her
fiance is in the field of special education in
Yakima. Brenda, Lana's younger sister, who
was with me for a year, will be her sister's
maid of honor. Brenda didn't get a job as
flight attendant so has settled for beauty
work. She plans on being married October 7
to a Kennewick young man. I am looking
forward to meeting these two fine young men.
I weigh what I weighed in college, to my
delight, but I'm afraid I can't keep it off
with all the food and parties and no up-and-
down stairs exercise at the Towers. The
pounds came off because of hard work in
moving and the mental work of settling
Arthur's estate. I also had great concern for
Fred, my bachelor son, because of his serious
condition following two major operations
within a week. I had just moved and was not
settled but went 15 miles daily for three weeks
to see him. All of these problems have now
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been resolved, and I am grateful. Fred is fine
once again.
Freddie Bernhard and Hellen Mowry Fell,
class of 1924, and I try to get together once
a month, but lately that hasn't been possible.
We are all saddened by Hellen's husband's
long illness which ended in death. Freddie
had illness in her family and had to travel
to them. I did manage to have them to lunch
in February and to see my new home.
Gertrude McGiffert MacLennan writes
that their 50th wedding anniversary last
August, followed by a trip to the Orient, was
a great success. She has had one cataract
operation and was awaiting the second. She
studied Braille, but now won't need it. She
does enjoy the talking books.
I know how proud all of you are that 93%
of our class gave to the 75th anniversary and
were recorded on the Honor Roll of Donors.
I wish 93% of you would write to me your
tid-bits for our column, which appears only
once a year.
1929
Secretary
Mary Archer Bean Eppes (Mrs. James V.).
447 Heckewelder Place. Bethlehem, PA 18018
Fund Agent
Sara Callison Jamison (Mrs. John R.), 616
Ridgewood Drive, West Lafayette. IN 47906
In February Jimmy and I spent a snowy
weekend at Old Joy Farm, South Berwick,
ME. with Carolyn Martindale Blouin '30 and
her husband Maury. She said her class was
already working on 50th reunion plans. They
have kept up with Flo Brown Elton, who
spent Thanksgiving with them. After years
of living in Massachusetts Flo has returned to
her old home in Charleston, WV.
Sally Callison and her husband Jamie did
not go down to San Marco Island for their
usual winter of Florida golf since Jamie had a
heart attack and was in the Lafayette hospital
for six weeks. He now has a pacemaker and
Sally says her friends have been wonderful
about writing or stopping to see them. Jessie
Exley Wooten's husband Henry is now blind.
They still keep their Lancaster County home
for weekends. Henry attends a center for
the blind every Monday through Friday morn-
ing where he is learning woodworking and
various other crafts. He is even teaching some
of the newer students. Their Richmond ad-
dress is: 1713 Bellevue Avenue, Apartment
C-924. Richmond, VA 23227.
Ruth Meredith Ferguson Smythe. her
husband Fred and Polly McDiarmid Serodino
spent mid-winter vacations in Sarasota. FL.
Belle Brockenbrough Hutchins and her hus-
band John took a cruise last fall to Alaska,
Japan. Hong Kong, and Singapore and were
on the first cruise ship to China. She writes,
"Shanghai was clean, though unpainted. and
its people very smiling and friendly. Our
China visit was a memorable experience."
Sally expects them to stop over in May on their
return from Del Ray, FL.
Helen Bryan Yankee has a new great-
grandchild. Her daughter-in-law Susan
Tucker Yankee '50 is the grandmother.
Helen's husband died in 1975 after retiring
as president of Darlington School.
Janet Bruce Bailey writes that she and Lin
"still enjoy our two homes. St. Thomas in
the winter and Chadd's Ford, PA, in the sum-
mer. Both of our families visit us at times,
especially at St. Thomas." Milo Bales Craw-
ford returned to her home at West Booth -
bay, ME, after a winter in Costa Rica and
Guatemala. She found the harsh Maine winter
had caused floods in her basement, which
damaged her furnace. She wrote, "Under-
stand Floridians took off for Costa Rica to
get warm; 70 degrees year 'round is most in-
viting. Inflation has hit Central America, so
will stay in U.S. over summer." Ella Parr
Phillips Slate and Sam spent part of the
winter in Charlestown. SC, where her sister
lives in one of the historic houses. She was not
looking forward to being snowed in on their
return to Sherman, CT, after such a pleasant
southern vacation.
Katharine Whaley Willey reports that for
the past twenty-five years, "I have lived in
Cambridge. MA. with my husband Gordon
R. who is a professor of Archaeology at Har-
vard University. Our two daughters are mar-
ried and live away from Cambridge. We have
three grandchildren, two boys and a girl."
Margaret Cucullu Thouron wrote Sally that
she is still doing real estate and looks forward
with horror to the day when. "I may no
longer be sprinting through houses and
surveying acres." She has eight grandchildren
"all delightful, really smart!" She recently
earned fifteen credits from the U. of Delaware
in Art History and is taking a course in five
centuries of fashion. "1 can't remember our
Sweet Briar costumes but I am sure there
wasn't a blue jean in the lot!" Louise Dailey
Sturhahn has moved but is still in Sarasota.
FL. Mildred Bronaugh Taylor and husband
John moved to Richmond, VA, early in
January. In April she suffered a cerebral
hemorrhage and her condition is stable.
We were in Maine less than a week lastsum-
mer but managed to catch up with Libber
Lankford Miles. She invited us to lunch at
their delightful retirement home in South
Thomaston. Johnnie was consulting on a
nearby island about the possibility of using
water power to generate electricity. We were
sorry not to see him. Lucille Burks Hopkins
says she is a housewife doing hospital and
church work. Jane Wilkinson Banyard wrote
that her eldest son. Frederick, better known
as "Skip," his wife Doris and their three
children are moving from Pittsburgh to Beth-
lehem. He is the new senior vice-president
of our largest bank. We look forward to the
time when they can move into the house they
are building. We hope Jane will come to visit
them, as well as us. She still has her part-
time job in H.A.E. Smith's in Pembroke,
Bermuda. Isabelle North Goodwin wrote that
her husband Tom died in March a year ago.
He had retired from Surgery after heart
attacks in 1968. They sold their house and
settled in a condominium near one son. Two
other sons and their families live in Augusta,
and Tom Jr. and his family live in Atlanta.
Anne Gochnauer writes, "I keep busy with
my Antique Shop, the Golden Horseshoe,
where I have authentic antique furniture
and accessories — both American and English
— also have a house to run and a garden to
work in — so I am never idle." She, Margaret
Green. Margaret Moncure Johnson and Maria
Bemiss Hoar went up to Squam Lake in
New Hampshire to help Nora Lee Antrim and
her family celebrate fifty years as summer
residents on the lake. Maria told me that
Elizabeth Lee Valentine Goodwyn came from
Chevy Chase and they played bridge at
Nora Lee's. They decided it was an historic
occasion!
Maria spent Christmas in Charlotte with her
daughter Cathy and her namesake grand-
daughter. She then had a grim winter, having
a total left hip replacement and two weeks
later the same operation on her right hip!
When we saw her in early April she was navi-
gating successfully with a cane. Last fall
she attended a reception at William and
Mary College in Williamsburg honoring her
husband Henry for his great services in the
special collections division of the Swem Li-
brary. A fund given in his memory will be
used to buy items for the library's manuscript
collection. Maria now lives in Richmond, VA.
Adelaide Henderson Cabaniss' daughter
Eve and her husband, the Rev. Raymond
Webster, find living in New York with a five
year old son a challenge indeed! They are
adjusting wonderfully to their life at St. James
Episcopal Church where Eve's husband is the
"second in command."
Last summer two of Jimmy's English
cousins, girls of 13 and 16, visited us. Our son
Bennett, his wife Cynthia and their three
daughters, 15. 11 and 8, joined us in Bethle-
hem at that time; so we had several nice
family reunions, which also included my sister
Helen Bean Emery '34 and her family. These
English cousins led us a merry chase with
mountain climbing, cavern exploration,
amusement parks, etc.!
In April we stopped to see Katy and Nancy
Coe in their Englewood apartment. Katy
has been ill and Nancy has been taking good
care of her. They both looked fine, but Katy
is very weak and is still taking chemotherapy.
We were impressed by their indomitable
spirit. We spent Easter weekend in the pour-
ing rain at Farmington. Nancy Butzner
Leavell '34 made our reservations. Thirty
members of Jimmy's class at U.Va. gathered
for their 50th reunion at the Boar's Head Inn.
Many wives came along. We especially en-
joyed seeing so many friends at the lovely
reception given by the president, Frank Here-
ford, and his charming wife, Anne, who also
went to Sweet Briar. After an extensive bus
tour of the greatly expanded University, we
attended dinner at the Boar's Head Inn, where
each member of the class present was wel-
comed into membership in the Thomas Jef-
ferson Society.
Don't forget Gert Prior's plea about estate
planning. Also, in line with Sally's request,
let's make a superhuman effort to be present
at our 50th reunion next Mav!
1933
Secretary
Mary-Paulding Murdoch Martin (Mrs. Hugh
M.). 1420 Park Ave.. Baltimore, MD 21217
Fund Agent
Ella Jesse Latham (Mrs. Robert E.), 3601 N.
Glebe Rd.. Arlington. VA 22207
After the reunion come-hither letter, a
windfall fell to my lot. The response dazzled
me, but corrections are solicited. By hand
count, our children average three; Izzy Neer
Sample appears to have the most — five — with
four daughters to Maggie Austin Johnson.
Peggy Way/and Taylor and the Neville sisters
have 93 or 94-year-old mothers. Our class
has traveled everywhere and still does, save
for Fran Powell Zoppa and me, the step-
sitters. For some pattern, I've lined us by
states.
California: Emmy Lou Haller Fullerton
has covered New Zealand. Europe, etc., and
now lives in a busy retirement community.
Rossmoor. Eleanor Hudgins Keith, Coro-
nado, spent four weeks in Virginia and shared
in her husband's 50th reunion at the Naval
Academy, Annapolis, MD. Their two sons are
in McLean. VA: Taylor, Jr., is a captain in
the USN and Langhorne is a lawyer in D.C.
Connecticut: Mary Kate Patton Bromfield
holds a great job as Alumnae-Development
Secretary. Kingswood-Oxford School, West
Hartford. Florida: Babe Barber Wilson, our
45th reunion president, has built a new house
in Stuart. Marjorie Ris Hand, who took the
S.B. Russia tour, will move to Naples this fall.
Betty W. Poppell has retired to Gainesville.
Hawaii: Our only resident (?). Marge Guhel-
man Hastert, does batik-dying and quilting
and has been twice to S. Africa, among other
jaunts. Louisiana: Sue Graves Stubbs was
placed on the National Honor Roll. Nat. Soc.
Colonial Dames. She has three fabulous
granddaughters. Sue, III. with national tennis
rating. Maryland: Charlene Lathrop White
lives at "Waverly." Easton, does needlepoint
design, and will visit India and Sri Lanka.
Jacqueline Billard attended the dedication of
Fred. S. Billard Elem. School at Coast Guard
Center, Gov. Island. Michigan: Isabelle Neer
Semple has phased out of most things; her
oldest son is now Foreign Editor NY Times.
Minnesota: Jane Martin Person and husband
Harold own 80 acres and have three children
in a five-mile radius.
Nebraska: Frances Neville Newberry of
North Platte recently took the Royal Viking
Cruise from Copenhagen to Athens. Mary Nel
Neville Siemen is an artist in oils and water
colors and an officer in sundry organizations.
New Jersey: Gerry Mallory Lees, always a true
sport in tennis, figure skating, etc., has risen
above personal tragedy: she is one of the few
with a pet, a "gorgeous small standard
poodle." New York: Margaret Ellen Bell
Hare's radiant letter took me back! Now
living and boating at Mamaroneck, recipient
of Clara Barton Society Gold Medallion,
she is off to the Staunton Foundation Histor-
ical Ball. North Carolina: Warwick Rust
Brown and her husband, retired Bishop of
Arkansas, are now perched on a mountain in
Cashiers. Ohio: Nevil Crute Holmes has
"presided over most everything" and travels
by the "We Drive It" method. Margaret Nel-
son Hartman shuttles from Cincinnati to
Pompano Beach, FL. Pennsylvania: Jean
Van Home Baber of Philadelphia offers to
do "needlepoint design and photo objects
according to specs" and sends "Greetings to
all." Janet Blood Brown of Rosemont winters
on the Florida Keys and summers on the New
Jersey shore. Lil Allison Redman of Berwyn
had dinner with Miss Rogers, "just the same
remarkable person." South Carolina: Sue
Johnson Simpson of Greenville has three fine
sons and sounds cheery.
Tennessee: Maggie Austin Johnson wrote a
spring blossom note from Lookout Mtn.; to
"Where?" she answers, "Going with the
wind." Mary Elizabeth demons Porzelius,
another globe trotter, is off to Scotland and
Ireland. Gertrude Raymond Dempster of
Knoxville has covered Hong Kong. Tokyo,
and Tahiti and is off to Arizona and New
Mexico. Texas: Gail Shepard Bean (the girl
with the Estee Lauder complexion), an artist,
now assembling a book of poetry, has traveled
widely and soon leaves for England, Iowa and
Ecuador!
Virginia: Jessie Coburn Laukhuff leads
this delegation with her luxurious provision
for the picnic, on the "back road to Amherst,
Elijah Road extended, past 'Red top' and Bus
Rhea's." Glory be! Ella Jesse Latham, class
fund agent par excellence, has worked a
needlepoint kneeler for the chapel and is off
to Scotland and England. Kitty Gochnauer
Slater, realtor-director in Middleburg. is
"reworking a ms.." her second book, on
/ Watched Hollywood Grow Up. Peggy Wav-
land Taylor of Charlottesville wrote blithely
of her elderly "watch-cares." historic ac-
tivities, and past travels. Fran Powell Zoppa,
traveling over, keeps Richmond in good order.
Elizabeth Stuart Gray, Who's Who, retired
with honors from 20 years as Secretary of the
Chesapeake Corp.. is super director trustee
of manifold corporations and author of
Brief History of the Town of West Point.
Donald Robertson, Schoolmaster, and many
newspaper articles. Washington. D.C: Jo
Rucker Powell is our Mrs. Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court in whose reflected light
we all take pride and glory.
1937
Secretary
Anna L. Redfern Ferguson (Mrs. Finlay F..
Jr.), 1811 Hampton Blvd.. Norfolk. VA 23507
Our 40th reunion was held in May. 1977,
and was attended by 12 members, accom-
panied by six noble husbands. According to
Mary Helen Frueauff Klein, it was a success.
Weather was fine, the campus, beautiful, and
Lois Ballinger entertained them for supper.
I should have attended (unable to) because in
absentia. I. Lollie. was elected class secre-
tary. Bear with me.
Mary Helen and husband Charles have
bought a retirement home in Wickenburg,
AZ. They showed the plans to Frances John-
son Finley and me when they were in Norfolk.
Looks great. Frances and her husband are
great gardeners and golfers. She is active
in the Garden Club of Norfolk and the Nor-
folk Society of Arts.
Polly Lambeth Blackwell. writes from
Winston-Salem. NC. that she and her
husband are building "a house for our old
age — smaller so that only a few of our six
grandchildren can come to visit at one time."
Jane Collins Corwin and Tom (now retired
from the Army) have found a retirement re-
treat in Hilton Head. SC. They golf, swim
and work in real estate.
Martha Hardesty Minshall is among the
travelers. She visited Europe, where she spent
15
most of the time in Holland with her son
Philip and his family. Since the family in-
cludes four-year-old twins, it was a lively
visit.
Becky Douglass Mapp and George Walter
had a trip to the Holy Land, which they are
enthusiastic about. They have enjoyed the
Bahamas this winter and plan a trip to Alaska
this summer. They now have seven grand-
children.
Alice Laubach has retired and says she is
enjoying it. except for the squeeze on the
budget. She finds being able to sleep late a
compensation.
Kate Shaffer Hardy reports briefly and
cheerfully, "Things much the same but thank
heaven, all is well." Wish we could all say
that. Barbara Munri Green lost her husband
recently and so did Dorothy Prout Gorsuch.
Heartfelt sympathy from all of us.
Beda Carlson Calhoun has been a widow
for four years. She lives in Sarasota, FL. where
she has been president of her garden club
for two years. She is on the board of directors
of Happiness House Rehabilitation Center.
Hidden Harbor Association and Richardson
Corporation.
Elinor Ward Francis was the recipient of
the National Recreation and Park Associa-
tion's National Voluntary Service Award at
the association's recent annual congress in
Las Vegas. Congratulations!
Bobby Jarvis Thomas writes from Hawaii
that they are enjoying a marvelous climate
and swimming in the blue Pacific. They also
do work for the Village Association, growing
exotic fruits and flowers.
A big house and garden and lots of house
guests keep Margaret Sandidge Mason busy.
In spite of her husband's continued illness,
she manages to participate in church work
and community activities.
Ann Lauman Bussey. Don and their daugh-
ter Carter touched down in the Virgin Islands
for a few days each at Little Dix Bay. Caneel
Bay and St. Thomas on their way to Stuart.
FL. for the winter. In March son Tuck came
down for a brief visit from New York, where
he works for Conde Nast Publishers. The
three traveling Busseys were looking forward
to the SBC trip to Ireland in July.
I attended a party recently to celebrate the
90th birthday of Frances Murrell Rickards
'10. A joyous occasion and you've never seen
so many Briarites gathered. Dr. Whiteman
sent her flowers and Dr. Anne Pannell Taylor
attended in person.
Write to me or the Alumnae Association
and we'll have more to tell you next year.
1941
Secretary
Mitni Worrhington Foster (Mrs. J. Campbell),
5100 Dunvegan Rd., Louisville, KY 40222
Fund Agent Frances Chichester Hull (Mrs.
Richard D.), 8 Mathes Terrace, Durham. NH
03824
Applause! Applause! and bless your bones!
Your cards, notes and several super letters
poured news my way as early as last May,
continuing apace all through the year. Many
special tidbits at Christmas and in reply to
my February doggerel. Thank you, dear
hearts.
Ma Bell contributed two "simply marvel-
ous" calls from dear roommates Shirley
Devine Clemens (Chipper North) and Frances
Baldwin Whitaker (Chipper South).
Shirl, snug in her "gem" of a house in Erie,
really enjoyed the beauty of another bitter
winter with her four wonderful offspring
home for the holidays. Son Rob is married to
lovely, Meg, residing in Ann Arbor, MI. Sam
lives at home while working, and Miss Anne
is in Tuscon, happily employed at a radio
station. Oldest son. John, has them all out
to his gatehouse by the lake for snow fun and
skating. Shirl was as full of giggles as ever.
One could almost see the velvet ribbons of
old, her trademark.
Fran, from her more southern clime, an-
nounced she was up to her ears as registrar
for the annual meeting of the Garden Club of
American held in Birmingham in early April.
A mighty task. She softly said she hadn't the
vaguest idea where they were going to bed
down 500 ladies, but was unflappable and
competent, as always, and looking forward
to seeing Shirley Shaw Daniel, who was com-
ing as alternate from her Garden Club of
Swarthmore, PA. Shirts has been elected
Club President for the next two years, a new
adventure now that her lovely daughter
Dottie's wedding is behind her. A darling
picture of the bridal party arrived with Shirts
and Dick's Xmas note, and I loved seeing the
"mother of the bride" as young and athletic
in appearance as ever. The happy couple will
live in Denver while Sandy Thompson gets
his Masters in Tax Law and Dottie works in
a bank as First Officer. Dick and Shirts
hope to visit them in June and will certainly
catch a glimpse of Eunice Foss Sneed. as her
son and wife are friends of the Thompsons.
At an S.B.C. bulb lunch in the Philly area
Shirts enjoyed seeing Eugenia Burnett Affel
and Betty Hanger Lippincott '42.
Birmingham news was big. Ruth Hemphill
DeBuys and John had a marvelous trip to
Israel in October, and at writing were about
to have dinner with Lillian Fowlkes Taylor
and Tyler. Ruth still paints and enjoys golf.
She and John have a tree farm and thanks to
an article in Southern Living sold every one
of their "come and cut" Christmas trees —
a blessing after a fire destroyed 30,000 of their
finest last year.
Tree farms are the smart investment, it
seems, for a card from Joan Meacham Gay
says they have a lovely new, contemporary
house overlooking a "seasonal waterfall"
on 59 acres of abandoned farm land they
are reclaiming by planting 700 "choose and
cut" Xmas trees per year. How to exercise
while being a good conservationist! Meach
has finally quit after 18 years on Town Board
of Health, possesses a new camera and is
doing slide shows on wild flowers and tree
growing. What fun! She and spouse also sell
cast iron woodstoves. heating their house
with two of their products. Meach's two sons
have flown "the nest" to Seattle, WA, and
Cambridge, MA, respectively, and she is
proud grandma of one 11 -year old. Joan asks
about Mary Henry Norman Pollock who lives
not far from us here in L'ville. Henni is fine
and works in real estate, but I am sorry to say
I catch only an occasional glimpse of her.
How could the Garden Club of America
ever do without the class of '41? Shirts is the
next president in Swarthmore, Fran is beaver-
ing in Alabama, yours truly is a past president
of the Glenview Garden Club of L'ville, Piney
is horticultering in Norfolk and now a card
brings the news that Helen Hamilton Lewis
is the current president of the Garden Club
of St. Louis. MO. Helen's daughter is married
to a teacher in the Grad. School of Social
work at the U. of L'ville. They too have the
"country bug," living in a renovated log
cabin on 68 acres in Indiana near French
Lick. Ham has two granddaughters, Megan
and Erin. 9 and 7. Son Woody and wife live
in France and have identical twin girls 9 mos.
old in March. The Lewises have really been
around — France, Scandinavia, two trips to
the Orient and Hawaii, and an Alaskan cruise,
as well as covering the Northwest.
Another inveterate tripper, Joan Devore
Roth sent the most recent postcard from
Firenze, Italy. She and John are truly knowl-
edgeable about Renaissance art (Dedore
being a pillar of the Cincinnati Art Museum),
but had to admit that after two weeks of
museums, churches, and superculture. John
was indeed that day playing a little "Floren-
tine" golf. Daughter Nancy was married last
October and is the only one of their three
chicks to live nearby. Campbell and I were
so sorry to miss the nuptials, but we were
on our very first S.B.C. charter, a superb
trip to Switzerland.
Alpine Martin Patterson wins a Freshman
apron and a mug of 3.2 beer at the Brass
Rail for being mentioned most frequently in
other people's communiques. Ellie Damgard
Firth wrote that she and Swede had a super
visit in February with Piney and attractive
husband Gene in their lovely new house at
Virginia Beach — water on three sides and
breath-taking views. Decca Gilmer Frackle-
ton also told of seeing Piney for the first time
since "getting the sheepskin." They bumped
into each other at the Norfolk Botanical Gar-
dens at a Field Day put on by the Garden Club
of Virginia. Piney attended as Horticultural
Chairman of her club. Decca and husband
Robert then took in the Garden Symposium
in Williamsburg in March, there enjoying
the company of Betty Doucett Neill and
spouse John, who have moved to Southern
Pines, NC. Decca's two young people are
returning to Fredericksburg and will be close
by, much to her delight.
Piney is not only famous, she works hard
in Garden Club, on the Altar Guild, and as
a member of the Board of Directors, Wo-
men's Council of the Navy League. Presently
any spare moments are spent, she says,
"pointing her needle at the needlepoint
kneeler for the S.B.C. chapel" — beautiful,
but so large that her small frame has trouble
wrestling it. She added a codicil to her will
that her Briarite daughter, Brooke Patterson
Mahlstedt '65, will carry on in the event of
Piney's demise. The large S.B. alumnae group
in Virginia is heaven to her after so many
years in Puerto Rico where Manhattanville
was IT with the large Catholic population.
More news of Ellie Damgard Firth from
sunny Fort Lauderdale where she has been
taking bridge lessons from one of the "ex-
perts" in the .country. The Firths are busy
trying to form a new Anglican congregation
in their community and have acquired a min-
ister, but no building so far. They will enjoy
a return trip to Virginia soon, as they summer
16
at Hot Springs every August and September.
Thanksgiving brought a welcome letter
from Louise Kirk Edwards all the way from
Barbados, where we have vacationed together
several times. Lulu and some friends had
come down on her beloved Q.E.II (she is now
an honorary member of the crew) and were
spending a brief holiday on that loveliest of
islands before cruising home on the Princess,
one of the newer vessels on the Cunard Line.
Betty Doucett Neill, as 1 mentioned, moved
Dec. 1 to Southern Pines, NC, John taking
early retirement to escape the rigors of com-
muter trains and New York in general.
Though disappointed at the lack of Carolina
sunshine this winter, they put time to good use
taking a course in horticulture at their com-
munity college, learning how to grow southern
plants such as camellias, magnolias and holly
in their sandy soil. Seven months of the year
they will stay South and then migrate with
the birds to their cottage in Portland, On-
tario. Oldest son John, Jr., is a buyer for the
G.A.P. chain, living with his wife and son, 3,
in San Mateo, CA. Daughter Martha '72 is
married to the assistant D.A. of Wilmington.
NC. Youngest son. Doug, has recently ac-
quired his Masters from UNC-G in counsel-
ing and works with the retired at Kendal in
Longwood, Kennett Square, PA. This is
Doucett's last year on Board of Overseers at
the Patch, and she will miss her trips as they
have been many; first on the Exec. Board of
Alums, and then B. of O. In return I'm sure
those at S.B. will miss her. (Editor's note:
We couldn 't let her go. She is to be our Box-
wood Circle Committee Chairman.)
Remember Olivia Rhodes Woodin left us
after a year to return to her beautiful Ashe-
ville, and graduate from Chapel Hill, where
she met her handsome husband Raye, down
from Williams for a tennis match. She did
attend 25th reunion, and Campbell and I saw
her and her lovely daughter on our way to
Myrtle Beach one 4th of July.
The Neills had a visit from Helen Watson
Hill and George travelling to Florida in
February and look forward to seeing them
again in Canada, where the Hills keep a
houseboat.
Elizabeth Lancaster Washburn had sent
the Neills an invitation to stay with her and
Bill in Lexington, when they return to W. and
L. for Jacks 40th reunion, but they regret-
fully declined as Jack is Chairman of the "do-
ings" and they must stay at the motel and
mingle.
Betty had also lunched with Anne Borough
O'Connor just before leaving Westchester.
Anne and husband Pete, who is retiring from
Burns Detective, were soon heading south to
their lovely condominium in Naples, FL, for
the bitter months.
Helen Watson Hill had also written that
they stayed the night with Helen Gwinn and
John Wallace on their way to Sanibel Island
to play golf, walk the beaches and shell. They
are thoroughly enjoying retirement.
Helen Gwinn Wallace lives in Leesburg,
VA, where she has amassed dozens of tro-
phies won by their race horses. Soon retiring
from 22 years in education as Asst. Head of
Hill School, she is looking forward to devoting
more time to the care and feeding of her be-
loved thoroughbreds.
One North Carolinian who didn't desert is
Martha Jean Brooks Miller. She and Tommy
are just great and "proud as punch" of their
three lovely daughters and their families. The
Millers have four grandchildren. They gather
the clan in her spacious house at Blowing
Rock, NC, in summer and again in Charlotte
for Christmas. Martha Jean enjoys the busi-
ness world as a real estate broker, special-
izing in houses; and lots of golf with Tommy
is still her leisure time love.
So many of us have jobs and love it. Word
came that Betty Crossman Cook is manager
of the Junior League's Next to New Shop
in Indianapolis and very capable at it.
I still love my two days a week at "Animal
Crackers," a dreamy shop for kidlets ages
to 14. Since the stork came flapping in our
direction again in early March, bringing a girl
bundle (Jessica, 9lbs. 6oz.) to our older son,
Wheeler, and his Jennifer, my nose is ever-
more to the grindstone trying to keep three
damsels and two wee squires in the kind of
"threads" so dear to a grandma's heart. And
to think that our youngest, Chris, is not even
married yet! He "baches it" with young Ros-
coe Willett, son of Fayette McDowell Willed
'43, and another pal and enjoys a good job
selling "wheels" to young and old at our local
good "Ford Store." Mine is a joyful job.
One of my more recent co-workers is Cornelia
Radford Butt '76, a Phi Beta Kappa. Connie
is helpful and attractive as Briarites have
ever been.
Our year has been full and fun. Since I mar-
ried a "youngster" just my age, Campbell is
naturally a bit away from retirement; so we
have just finished adding a large Florida room
on the back of our house to help us through
our more recent Arctic winter. Solar heat
keeps up toasty and my myriad plants love it.
blooming their heads off in coldest weather.
During our two worst months of deep snow the
variety of birds and wildlife at our three
feeders was fascinating. We did manage a
vacation at Amelia Island. FL, in August with
grandsons on the beach. In late September we
were off to Switzerland on our first S.B.C.
Charter and never had more fun. U.Va.,
S.B.C. Randolph-Macon and V.M.I, filled the
plane, so you can imagine how great "the
Group." Switzerland was particularly lovely
that time of year — breath-taking views and
flowers everywhere and superb weather. Cam-
pbell and I hope to do the Rome trip in Oc-
tober and urge you to join us. So reasonable
you can hardly afford to stay home! We also
sneaked in two restful weeks of warm sun in
Barbados in late February, meeting many new
friends and catching up with some repeaters.
Perfect swimming, sailing and snorkeling
made it memorable. Now we have out "the
sticks" and hope for better golf and boating in
our river tub this summer.
Word from Peg Tomlin Graves is that first
grandson, Cory Ford, arrived to parents Pete
and Helen Feb. 8, weighing in at 9 lbs. 4 oz.
Welcome to the Club, proud Grandma. Peg
hopes to be in Cincinnati soon. Do hope so. Its
so close I can easily run up the reune with
her and Dedore.
You will all be sorry to hear that Louise
Lemheck Reydel had bad health in '77. A
total hip-replacement last may was successful
to the point of her being able to golf in
August, but in October she suffered a heart
attack. Recovering sufficiently for a trip to the
Bahamas in December, she was back on the
sick list in March and headed for Houston for
an arteriogram and a possible by-pass
operation. Good luck, Lou.
Margaret Craighill Price keeps up with
four daughters (three SBC) and one grandson
all over the map. After a great fall trip to
Greece, Yugoslavia and Northern Italy,
she and Karl were busy finishing their dream
house on a lovely spot in Rappanhanock
County, VA. They hoped to have Fanny
Bird Jones and Tish Seibles Frothingham to
visit them there this April.
Tish loves New Canaan where there is a
"real cultural explosion" with interesting
people and many opportunities for good
volunteer work. She still finds time for her
water colors, popular among collectors who
frequent the local gift shop. Marie Gaffney
Barry joins her occasionally on the paddle
tennis courts, and Tish is learning cross-
country skiing which in her words "is prob-
ably a losing battle." Our lovely southern
May Queen has certainly joined the Yankee
athletic ranks.
Janie Loveland Byerts has the "empty
nest" syndrome now that youngest son is off
at Stetson U. She plays with her grandson
by oldest son and her daughter's little girl
and still finds time for her beloved horse
and the dogs she and Bill enjoy. They are
pleased that their middle son will be married
this summer. Living in Tallahasee, Janie
talks to Lulu Kirk Edwards, but rarely sees
her.
Doris Albray Bardusch moved to a new
house on a lovely little lake in northwest
New Jersey in October. Daughter Deb, her
husband and their little boy have the old
family homestead in Maplewood. Do's son
Ted is Assistant Chief Engineer of radio
station KING in Seattle WA. where he and
bride of one year are living.
More tripping and excitement! Jean Rug-
gles Smith has wonderful plans for the sum-
mer, hoping to join Wilma Cavett Bird, her
S.B.C. room-mate, for a week in Hawaii after
exploring the other islands. Jean sees a lot of
Charlie Davenport Tuttle and John in Chat-
ham, MA, where she summers. Wilma had a
weekend visit from Barbie Nevens Young and
a truly nostalgic "trip" back to Glamorous
Grammer and the Golden Stairs via their
pouring over our '41 Briar Patch. Those
Brooks Bros, sweaters still look good to us.
Still teaching in Tulsa. Wilma couldn't wait
for spring break and a trip to Italy with eight
students: Rome on Palm Sunday, then Pom-
peii. Naples. Capri. Florence. Venice and
Milan. Somebody's missing the boat not being
the travel agent for the class of '41!
In September Bobby Clark Dickey and
Fred transferred to Littleton, CO, from Iowa.
She writes that the mountains are spectacular
and the climate divine, but Oh! the SMOG.
"Newport, RI. is a great place in which to
retire." says Judy Davidson Walker, all
excited about buying their very first house.
Garden Club and Colonial Dames are her
loves. Husband. Tony has organized a detach-
ment of Continental Marines for the sloop
Providence. Oldest son. Bill, a lawyer, lives
in Winston-Salem, NC. Second son. Dan.
and wife are both law students at U.Va. while
producing her very first grandchild. And
youngest. Andy, is a 1st Lt. in the Marine
Corps and stationed in Hawaii. They had a
super visit to see him at Thanksgiving.
Evie Canty Marion and Andrew are not
the moving kind, having lived happily at the
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Three Women of the Year
Upon the joint recommendation of the Conserva-
tion and Medal Award Committees of the Garden
Club of America, Sara Shallenberger Brown '32 of Har-
rods Creek, KY, was awarded the Frances K. Hutchin-
son Medal for service of national importance in the field
of Conservation.
The Garden Club of America presented this Medal
during its 65th annual meeting in April in Birmingham,
stating "Through her vigorous and effective leadership
in every area of conservation, Sally Brown has become a
nationally known figure. In Kentucky she has rendered
invaluable service to the cause of river protection, keep-
ing a watchful eye on a nuclear power plant, construction
of a vast commercial and marina complex and land use
and management. She has not only educated Garden
Club of America members but she also has kindled the
interest of business leaders and the public to the crucial
importance of conservation.
"On the national scene, Mrs. Brown has long been
articulate on billboard control, strip mining and land
reclamation. She has been The Garden Club of America
Conservation Chairman and a Director of The Nature
Conservancy. Internationally, Mrs. Brown attended the
UN World Conference on Population Control held in
Budapest, where she represented both the Environmen-
tal Coalition for North America and the National Parks
and Conservation Association. To Sally Brown, Conser-
vation is not a hobby or an avocation but a way of life."
Among past recipients of the Hutchinson Medal were
Louis Bromfield, Dr. Robert C. Murphy, Walt Disney,
Rachel Carson, Newton B. Drury, Cason Callaway, John
H. Storer, Dr. Clarence Cottam and several others.
Frances K. Hutchinson (1857-1935) created "Wychwood
— A Sanctuary for Native Plants and Birds" on un-
touched woodland shores of Lake Geneva, Wise. For
many years Mrs. Hutchinson and her husband preserved
72 acres of ungrazed and unspoiled forest, making
Wychwood available to students. The estate was given
to the Univ. of Chicago for horticultural experiment.
Jane Roseberry Ewald '52 of Charlottesville was pre-
sented the Distinguished Alumnae Award at Stuart
Hall's annual Alumnae Day in April. This annual award
is given to the alumna "who has made the most signifi-
cant contribution to her school and community in the
past year."
When the school's budget ran a bit short, wouldn't
you know? Kitchie Ewald turned up with a new dish-
washer, a school sign and a brick walkway. Stuart Hall
describes her as a tireless worker, repeatedly opening
her home to alumnae, prospective students and for
trustee meetings. She has served as a trustee for Stuart
Hall for the past seven years. She and her husband are
donors of the Jane Roseberry Ewald Scholarship Fund
established in 1976, and she is the chairman of the major
gifts committee of The Program for Stuart Hall.
In Charlottesville she has served as Board member of
the Albermarle County Chapter of the American Cancer
Society and Board member of the Trosdale Home. She
also is owner and manager of The Very Thing, a gift
shop at the Boar's Head Inn. Kitchie is the first woman
member of the Law School Council, University of Vir-
ginia.
For Sweet Briar she served on the Executive Board of
the Alumnae Association from 1971-1977. She was
elected to the Sweet Briar Board of Overseers in 1975 for
a four-year term, serving on the Student Affairs Com-
mittee and the Development Committee of the Board.
Kitchie was chairman of the Golden Stairs Committee of
the Alumnae Association. The 1978 winter term course,
"Human Origins in Africa" by Donald C. Johanson.
and the Jane Goodall spring lectures were made possible
by Jane and John Ewald. They called it "seed money"
to encourage other alumnae to support academic pro-
grams at Sweet Briar.
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Sara Shallenberger Brown '32
Jane Roseberrv Ewald '52
Martha Rowan Hvder '48
In recognition of her contribution to the community
through her service to the Van Giburn Competition,
the Altrusa Gub of Fort Worth named Martha Rowan
Hyder '48 "First Lady of Fort Worth."
Among the guests at Altrusa's 1978 Civic Award Din-
ner in Martha's honor were President and Mrs. White-
man. Introduced by Laura Lee Grogan Crane '47, Pres-
ident Whiteman described the weekend at Sweet Briar
when Martha — chairman of the alumnae redecorating
committee — almost overnight changed the College's
interiors "from institutional beige to bright burnt
orange." Sweet Briar (and Fort Worth) know that when
Martha is around, things happen. "When I accepted the
chairmanship of the Van Giburn Competition," she
says, "I had to use my mind — for a change. Before this,
1 spent my life avoiding being anywhere at any particular
time." It was her husband Elton who persuaded her to
accept the Competition chairmanship and she then
"vowed to make it not only the best but the best known.'
The New York Times said of Martha, "Almost single-
handedly she has changed the complexion of the contest
(held every four years) by expanding the American tour
for the top three winners, adding the foreign tour and
establishing the 700-member Giburn Council. She is
now working on an endowment fund and a national
'Friends of Giburn' organization. She is omnipresent,
a sort of den mother in excelsis. "
While businessmen in Forth Worth say that Martha's
energy, work and enthusiasm have made the Giburn
Competition the major international competition,
Martha herself credits the success to the hundreds of
volunteers who have "endeavored to assist young con-
cert artists in their careers. Because of the generous
financial and moral support given by our friends
throughout the world, this Competition has no equal in
terms of the career opportunities offered to its winners."
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same address since '53, watching a whole new
generation grow up in their neighborhood.
Daughter Evelyn and Hunter Clarkson living
in Columbia, SC. made them first time mem-
bers of the grandparents club with a son born
Jan. 12. Two other of Evie's children. Andy.
Jr., a financial management consultant at
Harris Bank in Chicago, and Margaret, who
works in Aiken, SC. are still single. Evie
tripped abroad for her very first time in
April with a group including Kitty Lawler
Stephenson '39. Southern England, Wales
and Ireland were on the itinerary.
An average grandmother is Frances Wat-
kins Centilli. whose three sons have 3.33
children altogether. Daughter Margaret
teaches special education at an elementary
school and still enjoys her "single state."
She keeps her ma good company, taking
weekend seminars in many subjects at Texas
A. and M.
Would you believe that our diminutive
Louise Hathaway Norman has an equally
small, very pretty and feminine daughter.
Stephanie, who for ten months has worked
as a telephone installer for the Pacific Phone
Co. doing a super job. She can fit into the
hard to reach places that are a nightmare for
big, burly men. Louise is "proud as punch" of
her. Meanwhile Louise continues as the
"Voice of Smog" for the air pollution control
agency of Los Angeles.
Our own Butch. Ethel Gurney Betz. is still
living at the same old pad. She has three
grands just two blocks away. She stays busy
taking care of their granddad, the pad and
her garden and still "burns up the links" on
occasion on the J.V. Club team. She sees Betsy
Gockley McLellan '40 a lot and Decca Gilmer
Frackleton upstate each summer. Butch and
Dedore Roth correspond over the baseball
scores of arch Rivals, the Cincinnati Reds,
and the Mets. They commiserated last year.
The snows were a boon to Betsy Tower
Bennett cleaning out an 18-year old accumu-
lation of "things" in their house in Irvington.
NY. Husband Charles has a new publisher for
The United Stales Banker. Attending conven-
tions, they caught up with son Benj. in Tulsa.
He attends a Bible training school. Other son.
Randy, and wife Cheryl live in Chicago, he
teaching photography while she does weaving
with great talent. Betsy and Charles vaca-
tioned in St. John. Virgin Islands, in January.
They loved the swimming, snorkeling and
camping at Cinnamon Bay.
A partial poem came back from Emmie
Lou Phillips Lohmeyer. Quite good! She
reports husband, Lloyd, well busy and happy.
#1 son, Luke, and wife are both teaching in
International School in Tehran. Iran. #2. Ned.
is married and painting with talent in
Philadelphia. Daughter Lucy is having a ball
before college, riding, skiing, travelling and
aiming at her pilot's license. Emmie Lou
beavers doing Garden club. Church work and
volunteering in a rehabilitation skilled nursing
hospital. She joins the ranks of bridge and
travel, from the British Isles, Spain and Mor-
occo in '77 to relaxing on the Rhine and en-
virons in '78 and perhaps a peek at Russia and
Iran. Son Ned will be an usher at the wedding
of close friend Ted Swain, son of Anne Bene-
dict Swain '39.
Margaret Stuart Wilson Dickey sent along
two cards, the first last May telling of their
glorious month in Greece with New Orleans
friends. They spent Easter in Athens, but
Crete was their favorite in spite of frigid
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weather. October's card was from my favorite
old General Lewis Inn. in Lewisburg, WV.
where Campbell and I had dined with the
Dickeys on our way from 35th reunion. This
time they had driven the Appalachian Trail
all the way to Montreal, enjoying the gorgeous
fall foliage. A visit to S.B.C. on the way up
made the trip. How proud we are that Mar-
garet Stuart is the first woman City Director
of Texarkana, AR. Only seven directors
serve the city government.
Please keep those notes and postcards
flowin' cause our circle of friends just keeps
a 'growin'. Have a good year, and my thanks.
1945
Secretary
Anne Dickson Jordan (Mrs. Goodwin S.), 1108
Bruton Ln., Virginia Beach, VA 23451
Fund Agent
Julia Mills Jacobsen (Mrs. Lawrence). 4416
Edmunds St., N.W., Washington. DC 20007
Some of you still write complaining that
you never see class notes for 1945 in the Alum-
nae Magazine. This is the only issue in which
we are allowed space. So remember to get
news to me by April 15th if you want it in-
cluded.
It was so good to get a Christmas card from
my roommate Irene McDonnell Hill who had
gotten an S.B. Directory and was reestablish-
ing contacts. She and Gene have recently
moved but still live in Memphis; they have
three married children and four grandchil-
dren. Her life "still includes a lot of house-
keeping and children-tending."
"Wodie" Coleman Monaghan writes from
Birmingtham, AL, that she has four married
daughters. She also has two young sons living
at home.
Rosemary Newby Mullen recently earned
her Master's degree in Education and has
returned, after many job offers, to her work
with learning-disabled children. "Am up to
my ears with 18 boys ages 12-15 and enjoying
it thoroughly."
Exciting news from Steve Nicholson
Mcllvaine. She went on a walking safari in
the northern part of Kenya with camel carry-
ing the gear. "Silence, space, scenery are the
goals." She can't stay away from Africa very
long.
Betty Healy Cutler now has a daughter-in-
law, Jane Park, who is doing welfare work
in Arlington while husband Dr. Gordon Cut-
ler, Jr.. is doing research in Endocrinology
at the National Institute of Health in Be-
thesda.
Margaret Swann Norris's son John was
married in August and received his law
degree in December from U. of Tenn.
Ann McLean Loomis still teaches art to
blind and deaf-blind youngsters, ages 3'/2
to 21, at Oak Hill School for the Blind in
Weatogue, CT. She has two sons and a
daughter. The older son is in the Marine
Corps and lives in California.
Sadie Allen Blackburn is currently very
busy traveling over a five-state area (Texas,
Louisiana. Mississippi. Tennessee, Arkansas)
as Zone Chairman for the Garden Club
of America. Her job involves monthly
board meetings in New York and prospec-
tive visits to flower shows and gardens in
Bermuda and Hawaii. Her daughter Cathy
'73 is in architectural school at Pratt Insti-
tute in New York.
Suzanne Thomason Atkinson has a pic-
ture-framing business in Bartlesville. OK.
and happily pursues oil and watercolor
painting and pen-and-ink drawing. She
hopes to sketch Sweet Briar on her next
visit, which may be soon since she has a
son in Virginia Beach and another in North
Carolina.
Jane Spiegel Eakin writes that she is ser-
ving as Chairman of Volunteers, St. Louis
Bi-state chapter. American Red Cross.
Cappy Price Bass writes, "I've had quite
a year. Mother died suddenly in January, a
daughter was married in May, another
daughter made us grandparents in Sep-
tember. In between we've managed two S.B.
trips — to Tahiti and Switzerland — and five
weeks of fishing in Canada."
Harriet Willcox Gearhart's daughter Mary
graduated from S.B. in May and husband
David gave the Baccalaureate sermon.
Perk Traugott Brown, Lyn Dillard Grones,
Barbara Bourke Stovall and I all live here
and get together often. Barbara's third
grandchild, daughter of Dave, Jr., was born
in August. Lyn spends much time at S.B.
since daughter Keedie '76 is assistant to
the director of riding and youngest daughter
Cathy is a rising senior. Perk's oldest son,
Townsend, is getting married in July. Perk
and Jane McJunkin Huffman took a trip last
summer to Scotland. While visiting Sterling
Castle, they ran into Tickie Clark Hornby
and husband who live in Malaga, Spain.
Remarkable! I am leaving as soon as school
is out in June (10-18) for Paris and the
Chateaux country. I'm taking three of my
students under auspices of the American
Institute of Foreign Studies. I'm ecstatic
as I haven't been back to Paris since my
year of graduate work in 1946-47.
1949
Secretary, pro tern
Polly Plummer Mackie (Mrs. Julius A., Jr.),
207 Ladbroke Rd., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Fund Agent
Sarah Gay Lanford (Mrs. John C), P.O. Box
1450. Lexington, VA 24450
Because of many other commitments, our
star correspondent for these past years. Carter
Van Deventer Slattery, has asked me to take
over for her for our last news letters before our
30th reunion. She has done a wonderful job
and we are all grateful. I'm sure the Alumnae
Office will be grateful when my tenure is over,
as I can spell no better now than I did during
college days.
Herbert and Carter went to Memphis in
February and celebrated with Ellen Ramsey
and Ken Clark on their 25th anniversary. It
was great fun for them to see so many friends
after 20-odd years. Mimi Semmes Dann and
Alex were there. Mimi is recognized as an ex-
cellent potter, but unfortunately her studio
had burned to the ground a week before and
she was busy cleaning up. Carter's oldest son,
Herbert, III, and wife Cary moved back to
Knoxville in September and he is working on a
combined Law — MBA degree. Charles started
graduate school this spring and Hugh will
finish at T.C.U. in May.
Sally Ayres Shroyer said that Andy was due
to get his MBA at Emory in May and that Lou
was talking about retiring. She still teaches at
National Cathedral.
Kay Bryan Edwards sent a picture of her
eight handsome children. She had been to
Egypt ("highly recommended") and is still ac-
tive with Symphony, Child Advocacy, the
State An Museum and Mental Health.
Alice Trout Hagan writes from Roanoke of
June Eager Finney's visit last summer while
showing her daughter Sweet Briar. Alice's
daughters. Lisa '79 and Ellen '81. are both at
Sweet Briar. Their son is in med. school at
U. Va. and daughter Kitty, 13, is still at home.
Dorothy Wallace Wood also had two
daughters at Sweet Briar. Betsy, a Sweet Tone,
graduated in June and Brandy, a rising senior,
is active in Paint and Patches. Dot had a good
visit with Jean Taylor in Washington in
January.
From our Richmond contingent, Libby
Trueharl Harris writes that daughter Mary
Lawrence is class of '79 at Sweet Briar and her
twin Elizabeth Robinson has just returned
from a year in Paris on the Hollins Abroad
program. (Libby saw Pat Brown Boyer and
family in Paris when she visited her daughter.)
Libby loves taking prospective students to visit
Sweet Briar.
Marie Musgrove McCone and Richard con-
tinue to live part time in Richmond and part
time in Monticello near Charlottesville. They,
with their three daughters and husbands, two
grandchildren and Marie's mother were all
together at Christmas visiting Marie's middle
daughter who lives in Farmville, VA.
Caroline Casey McGehee has three in
college this year: Carden C, Jr., studying for
his M.A. in Architectural History; Stephen, a
junior English Major at W. & L.; and
Margaret, a freshman at Mt. Vernon in
Washington.
Margaret Towers Talman reports both girls
happy in college — Nell, a senior at Denison.
and Margaret, a freshman at Chapel Hill.
Margaret and Carter are enjoying their new-
cottage at Sandbridge.
Frances Pope Evans writes from Houston
that she returned to Kenya, E. Africa, on
Safari with naturalist John Williams, where
they identified over 400 species of birds. Fran-
ces. Jr.. 17, is a senior at St. John's School in
Houston.
Ann Holmes Bryan's daughter Leslie in-
terned for the year in South Korea with the
Pearl Buck Foundation and has received her
Master's degree in International Ad-
ministration. Son Jeff is in his last semester of
the MBA program at Penn's Wharton School.
One of our more illustrious alumna is Lucie
Wood Sanders, who is Chairman of the
Department of Anthropology at Lehman
College. CUNY, and Vice-President of the
Behavioral Sciences Division of the N.Y.
Academy of Sciences. She received funding
from City University and the Smithsonian for
field work in Egypt in Janaury 1977.
Another of our stars is Catherine Cox
Reynolds, who has been Mayor of East Hart-
ford. CT. Governor Ella T. Grasso's regional
government coordinator and. as of April 1st.
the new chairman of Connecticut's Urban Ac-
tion Task Force. To quote Katie — "I'm very
excited about it. This way. I'll get a chance to
put the ten years of service in local govern-
ment directly to work." Congratulations
Katie!
Bunny Barnetl Brown's two daughters are
married and two sons are still in college. She
and Walt travel the world on banking
business.
Ann Eusiis Weimer, husband John and son
Scott traveled to Norway in the spring of '77,
skiing in the mountains and touring Lapland.
This year's trip will take them on a canoe trip
in the Bandary Water Canoe Area.
Lindsay Coon Robinson writes that since
her number 3 daughter is at Hood College in
Frederick. MD. she is fortunate in often being
able to see Peggy Quynn Maples and all her
great family.
From our Chicago group Joan McCarthy
Whiteman writes that daughter Kim. who
graduated from Lake Forest College this
spring, was to be married in June and son Don
is working in Chicago for Beeker Securities
and loves it. Joan and Wes had a fabulous trip
to Greece and then a Black Sea cruise to
Turkey. Russia, Crete and Rhodes before
Christmas. In the fall they hope to take a
golfing vacation, visiting many courses in the
Hawaiian Islands.
Our beloved song leader Fritzie Duncombe
Millard has moved back to Winnetka and is
living in a condominium with Brook. 13. the
only child still at home. She is working at one
of the better dress shops in Win-
netka — clothes for Carter Susan and her at
cost — greatest fringe benefit. Fritzie says
"Start planning for our 30th reunion."
Alberta Pew Baker has five living children
(a son died of leukemia three years ago). Deb-
by, 24. is completing an M.A. in economics at
Queen's U.. Kingston, Ontario. Becky, 23, is
teaching French in the Chester Elementary
School System. Bonnie. 20, is in the Bonny
Lea Farm School Pre- Vocational Program.
Joseph, 17, is in the 12th grade at Ridley
College, St. Catherine's. Ontario. Jeanne. 14,
is in grade 10. Bishop's College School, Len-
noxville. Quebec. The Bakers' main oc-
cupation is working with about 60 young
people at a school-training center for those
with multiple handicaps. The program em-
phasises their abilities and potentials rather
than their limitations.
Mary Brown Ballard started law school at
South Texas College of Law in Houston in
Janaury, 1978. Her mother, Marie Brede Zim-
merman '24. joined Mary and her husband on
a quick trip to England and Scotland between
semesters.
Last but not least is the news from
Philadephia. Ruth Garrett Preucel and I are
in almost daily contact, particularly since
Ruthie Preucel and Allison Mackie are
classmates at the Shipley School here in Bryn
Mawr and great friends. Ruthie has just made
her decision to go to the U. of Pennsylvania
next year following both her brothers. Bob
who graduated in June and goes off to
graduate school in Archaeology and Bill who
will be a sophomore. Ruth and husband Bob
pulled off five blue ribbons in the Philadelphia
Flower Show in March. Ruth is also busy as a
member of the Woman's Committee of the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts w here she
is also a docent; a member of the board of the
New School of Music, and chairman of the
Friends of the Music Department of the U. of
Pennsylvania.
Having given up my job at the local book
store. I have become a full-time dilettante. I
play tennis and duplicate bridge, garden, read
and gossip on the telephone about such in-
teresting subjects as whose child was or was
not accepted at which college! Allison is on the
waiting list at Chapel Hill, and if she does not
get in will go to Kenyon. She is very interested
in the theatre and music and hopes to have a
career combining both. Son Alex, who
graduated from College two years ago, is
working for an environmental consultant firm
here but has decided he really wants to teach
so is in the process of applying for a job for
next fall. Jack is still a professor of surgery at
Penn and terribly busy, but we do travel some
and hope to do some more in the future.
Do start thinking about our 30th. which is
next spring. Our past reunions have been
great fun and there is always much to catch up
on with old friends as well as the college.
EDITOR'S NOTE
We regret that notes from the classes of
1953, 1957, 1961 and 1969 were not received
at the Alumnae Office.
1965
Secretary
Aline Rex Calhoun (Mrs. Larson P.. Jr.). 2014
Brookview Dr. N.W. Atlanta. GA 30318
Fund Agent
Juliet Young Maclvor (Mrs. John C). 5339
Aylor Rd., Fairfax, VA 22030
Marriages
Carole Dudlev to William Shappard. Mav 28.
1977.
Lucy Pryor Mcllwaine Hale to Hunter Holmes
Wood. Aug. 6. 1977.
Jean Inge Leventis to Archibald Cox, Jr.. Aug.
20, 1977.
Michaele Moxham Williamson to Henry
William White.
Births
John Jemison to Sonja Howell and Chris
Bourn July 7. 1977.
Emily McEwen to Brenda Muhlinghaus and
Hugh Barger Sept. 4. 1977.
Richard H.. Ill, to Beverly Sharp and Richard
Amberg. Jr. Sept. 28, 1977.
Kathryn to Grace Powers and William A.
Banks. April 17. 1978.
Bunny Sutton Healy writes from Boston
that husband Jay is in his second year of law-
school and is also serving on the Judiciary
Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature.
They.were both anticipating a trip to Hawaii.
From Hartford, CT. Toni Thomas Britton
writes that she is getting a divorce and
finishing work on a masters in organizational
behavior at the U. of Hartford Business
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School. She also keeps busy with Julie. 10, and
Tom. 7. as well as on the boards of the YWCA
and the United Way. From Old Greenwich,
Chris Kilcullen Thurlow said that their efforts
to remodel an old. waterfront home were con-
siderably set back by the terrible winter storm
which caused extensive water damage. The
children Katie, b. and Mike. 5, keep her busy,
as does working in her design firm, Greenwich
Interiors.
From New York, Margie Rand Chapman
writes that they will be moving from Buffalo to
Brookline, MA. where George has accepted a
call to be Rector of St. Paul's Church. They
will be living in the Rectory, a large, rambling
home, "with room for gymnastics in some
room other than the living room." Lisa, 8V2,
and Amy. 6, are looking forward to the move
and being able to walk to school. In Ithaca,
Fair Mackae Gouldin and her family are set-
tling into a roomy house in the country, after a
marvelous sabbatic year in California. The
children are Ann. 6, Cary, 4. From New York
City, Magda Salvesen writes that she and
husband, Jon Schueler, have moved into a
wonderful new home which provides Jon with
a spacious artist's studio. Magda teaches at
the Day School in Manhattan. They spent two
months in Scotland this summer.
From Wilmington. DE. Sally Wright Hyde
says the latter part of last year was spent sur-
viving major construction on their house,
resulting in a new kitchen and family room.
She and Steve plan a family trip out West this
summer with Mike. 9, Alex, 7, and Katie, 4.
In Virginia. Mary K.Lee McDonald divides
time between her two boys, ages 7 and 3, and
Jr. league, the United Way, and being Fi-
nance Chairman on the SB Alumnae Execu-
tive Board. The whole family is involved in the
renovation of an old home in downtown Rich-
mond for John's law firm. In Front Royal,
Michaele Moxham Williamson White writes
that she divides her time between being
mother to James Todd Williamson. 5, and An-
ne Alexandrine Williamson, 4, working as a
guide in the Thunderbird Archaeological
Museum, and being a stained glass artisan in
her own business, Firefly, Inc. Henry is
building solar homes. After their marriage,
Pryor Hale and Hunter Wood spent a month
in Scotland and Ireland. At present, they are
divided between Charlottesville, where Pryor
teaches psychology at Piedmont Virginia
Community College, and Alexandria, where
Hunter is finishing a Ph.D. at American
University and also practicing psychotherapy.
They hope to settle together in Charlottesville
in the near future. Meanwhile, they are con-
tinuing to renovate an old home in the historic
Court Square section of Charlottesville. Pryor
continues to "beagle" regularly and be active
in the Mental Health Association, the local
chapter of the National Organization of
Women, and the Women's Forum, a local
group Pryor founded to recognize women's
achievements. In Norfolk, Abby Starke Baird
is busy teaching and taking care of Eleanor,
b'A. Eddie has opened his own law practice.
Together they enjoy sailing.
In Davidson. NC. Brenda Muhlinghaus and
Hugh Barger moved into their home last
spring. It is built on their beef cattle farm.
Jack, 5. Kate. 2, and baby Emily are fine.
From Raleigh, Natalie Lemmon Parker writes
that all is well. Karen. 10, is into gymnastics
and babysitting, after taking the Red Cross
Babysitting Course. Josh, 7. loves soccer. The
Parkers finished a vacation house in the
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North Carolina coast town of Oriental, "a
great spot for the serious sailors and fisher-
men."
In Charleston, SC, Kathleen Watson Taylor
says she is busy with Carney, 7'A, and Anne,
3'/2. Marshall will finish his Radiology
Residency in June and has accepted a job in
Washington, NC. Brooke Pat terson Mahlstedt
say their family will stay in Charleston another
year. Brooke is enjoying golf and getting in-
volved in the Historic Society's Spring House
Tour. Doug, 5, is beginning T-ball; Andrew is
2.
In Augusta, GA, Laura Haskell Phinizy
stays busy with her three cute girls — Laura,
Louise, and Marion. Laura also continues
work as President of the Episcopal Day School
Association, on the EDS Board of Directors,
on AID Board, as Chairman of Christian
Education Commission at church, and as a
Sunday School teacher. Lawson and I just en-
joyed a marvelous weekend with the Phinizys
in their lovely home, for a very exciting
Masters Golf Tournament.
In Louisville, KY, Alice Virginia Dodd con-
tinues to enjoy her work with children as the
school media librarian. Recently she was
asked to do a spot on the local educational TV
station, which was later shown on "TV snow
school." Alice Virginia also especially enjoys
teaching young people to use the video tape
recorder.
From Holly Springs. MS. Peggy Jones writes
that she is engaged in private practice of the
law. She and her law partner have just
renovated an old house to serve as their office.
In New Orleans, Karen Ludwig is co-owner
with her mother of Mignon and Kayelle,
selling childrens clothes and accessories. Her
mother and Karen, both Sweet Briar alumnae,
would love to see other Sweet Briar gals when
in the city. Also, in New Orleans, Eugenia
Dickey Ford is moving in August into a
beautiful new apartment in an old Irish Chan-
nel shotgun house being renovated by a friend.
In her work at the U.S.D.A. she is helping
design a very large on-line payroll/personnel
data base, which should be implemented by
December, 1980.
In Houston. TX. Sallie Mullins Thompson
writes that Guy has a new job as Director of
Corporate Relations for Credit Suisse Bank.
Kathryn is 3 and in pre-school. Sallie is doing
her Jr. League work at the Museum of Natural
Science, giving pre-tour talks to 4th graders.
Farther north, in Minnesota, Susan Strong
McDonald writes that she has taken a job
painting murals for the city of Minneapolis.
Her art show opened in February in the
Women's Art Registry of Minnesota. The
children are now 12, 10, and VA. The family
enjoys cross country skiing.
From the far West, in California, Sally
Rasco Thomas writes that she. Bill, David, 6.
and Bo, 4, settled in San Diego five years ago.
Bill is a partner in a local law firm. The
Thomases stay busy with church work, soccer
for David, Jr. League and other volunteer
work for Sally.
In Hood River. OR, Mimi Vogt Macht says
that Marlow, 5. Madison, 2, a big house, big
dog, and big garden keep her busy. Her
husband teaches at Portland State U.
Outside of the country, Jean Inge Leventis
Cox writes that she moved to London in Sep-
tember, after her marriage to Archibald Cox,
Jr., who is managing director of Morgan
Stanley and Co.. Inc. Chris. 8V2, is in the 3rd
grade at Sussex House, a marvelous English
school. From Mexico. Mel Freese Cata writes
that she is "an old fashioned wife and mother,
pretty much a homebody by choosing." She
enjoys the care of Alberto, 10, William, 9, and
Victoria, 8. Their household also consists of
an 82 year old father, an unmarried sister and
numerous pets.
Back home we Calhouns are fine. Lawson is
starting remodeling construction on his real
estate office which will double the space, a
happy thought for him. Most enjoyable for me
this year was our antique study group and
doing Jr. League work at the Georgia Trust for
Historic Preservation. Soccer for Clay, 8V2,
and ballet for Emory, 5, keep them busy.
Recently we have enjoyed trips to Sea Island
and Disney World and the beach with the
children.
1973
Secretary
Peggy Cheesewright Garner (Mrs. John
Robert), 2150 - 130th Place, S.E., Bellevue,
WA 98005
Fund Agent
Diane Leslie, 47 No. Fullerton Ave., Apt. 27.
Montclair. NJ 07042
Engagements
Abigail Allen to Nick Rennekamp
Lisa Fowler to William Winslow
Lisa Marshall to David Chalmers
Alice Mclnnis to Carl Hughes
Marriages
Deedra Brown to Mr. Cook
Judith Buttrick to Howard Sargent
Evelyn Carter to Reynolds Cowles
Creigh Casey to John Krin, Jr.
Peggy Cheesewright to John Garner
Roberta Culbertson to Joseph Marshall
Marelee Davis to Charles Simmons, Jr.
Sue Dern to Lt. David Plank
Carol Evans to Tom Jepperson
Robin Harmon to John O'Neil
Pamela Ivens to Michael Renner
Jane Knutson to Michael James
Taffy Kuhns to Dan Dimancescu
Laurie Norris to Andy Solywoda
Cindy Redman to Bob McCullough
Nan Robertson to Hal Clarke
Virginia Rogers to David Gould
Sally Slaughter to Robert Lilly
Births
Issac Campbell, IV, to Lee Brennan Kidd and
Kevin
Heather Alison to Donna Crouch Campbell
and Bob
Molly Cameron to Molly Dunn Martin and
William
John Matthews, Jr., to Nancy Len than Conaty
and Jay
Cary McDowell to Rachel Mays Fitzgerald
and Arnold
"Mickey" to Jane McCutchen McFadden and
Barclay
Katherine Elizabeth to Karen Nielson Gram-
matieas and Andy
Peter Brendan to Jane Olmstead Murphy and
Paul
Lynn Hylton to Cathy Rasmussen Rentzel and
Chris
Mary Alison to Carol Slewart Harper and
Doug
Sarah to Jenny Stockwell Ferguson and Dan
Carol Stewart Harper, Doug, and their new
daughter are living in Pensacola, FL, where
Doug is a Navy helicopter instructor pilot.
Abigail Allen is also living in Florida. After
her marriage this summer, she and her new
husband Nick (who is a professional polo
player) will go north for the summer. Char
Reed Miller received her Ph.D. in Cellular
Biology and has received a post doc from the
Heart, Lung, and Blood Division of the
National Institute of Health. Char's husband
Bill is finishing his Ph.D. and is Director of
the Electron Microscope Lab at Florida State.
Mac Cuthbert Langley and Johnny will be
in Birmingham until June when Johnny will
complete his pediatric residency. William and
Molly Dunn Martin live in Montgomery, AL,
where William practices law. Molly has retired
from teaching piano to care for their new-
baby.
Lois Means moved to Charleston, SC, late
last summer and she is working as an ad-
ministrative assistant to a real estate lawyer.
In Columbia, Jane McFaddin was promoted
to head of her own legal unit within the agency
where she works. She was in New Orleans for a
conference in March and had a fun visit with
Betsie Merit" Gambel.
Carol Anne Provence Gallivan and Mills
and their daughter are living in Greenville,
SC. Mills is practicing law and Carol Anne is
being a full-time mother and volunteering at
the art museum. They spent a week with Betsy
Oakley Smith and Smitty in New York this
summer.
In Chapel Hill Barbara Cain is working for
the Pathology Department at UNC. Dixie
Black O'Connor is working as a public rela-
tions director for a hospital in Lumberton,
NC, while her husband Paul is working as a
court and county news reporter for the daily
newspaper in Lumberton. Ann Evans, who
lives in Cashiers, NC, will complete her M.A.
in Biology this summer.
Michael and Anne Smith Leamon moved to
Charleston, WV. last fall where Michael is an
apprentice to a man who builds antique
reproduction furniture and Anne is working
as a counselor for the W.Va. Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation. They both love
their jobs. Rachel Mays Fitzgerald is a
homemaker in Amherst. VA. Robin Roden is
doing her residency in Family Practice at
Roanoke Memorial Hospital. During January,
she travelled to the Cayman Islands. Evelyn
Carter Cowles and her husband Reynolds live
in Free Union, VA, where they have a small
farm that they are renovating. Kris Howell
Heyward, who is going to school in Greens-
boro was at Evelyn's wedding. Also in Free
Union is Champe Smith, who has bought with
friends twenty-five acres of land on which they
will develop an extensive garden of fruits,
vegetables, herbs, and ornamentals. Champe
is working as a cook at The Corner Deli.
Pamela hens Renner is working on a special
grant related to clinical pharmacology and
behavior at the U.VA. Medical. Last summer,
she and her husband Michael spent the sum-
mer in New Hampshire teaching sailing at a
girls' camp and running their summer resort
business.
In Franklin, VA, Susan Hancock Duke and
Roy have a successful retail clothing business.
Roberta Culbertson and her husband Joseph
Marshall both work in Richmond and Rober-
ta is doing graduate work at U.VA. Marrlee
Davis Simmons received an M.Ed, in Math in
1976. married Charles (who is working as an
aide to Senator Herman Talmadge) in 1977,
and is now teaching in Alexandria, VA. Also
in Alexandria is Sue Dern Plank and her
husband David. In May, 1977, Sue went to
London, Bath, and Scotland. She and David
honeymooned in the Adirondacks last July.
She volunteered for the National Park Service
cataloging The White House's collection of
oriental carpets. She has seen Ginger Wood-
ward Gast, Sandie Schwartz Tropper, and
Betsie Meric Gambel when Betsie was in town.
In Northern Virginia, Glenys Dyer Church is
working for a company as a math/per-
formance analyst.
Since 1973. Dee Couchman has been in-
volved with the government and is currently a
federal investigator with the Department of
Defense in D.C., after also being in Los
Angeles for a while. Sandie Schwartz Tropper
is the editor for a magazine and newspaper
monthlies which are published by the
National Center for Community Action in
Washington. Her husband Peter is in the of-
fice of the Special Trade Representative.
Marye Taylor is in D.C. working for Senator
Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, in addition to
working towards an M.A. in Urban Preser-
vation at George Washington U. After being
in Seattle last fall for three months. Rita/1«-
selmo Sileo and Gordon have returned to D.C.
Rita transferred from H.E.W. to the Depart-
ment of Labor, where she is working with the
Seattle Regional Office, which will oc-
casionally bring her back to the Northwest.
She and Gordon went to Cindy Redman Mc-
Cullough's wedding last summer and saw Ann
ColgTove there. Palmer Lane is now a full
business partner in the new Middendorf-Lane
Gallery which specializes in oil and watercolor
paintings and in drawings by American artists
from 1900 on.
Jill Hepinstall is living in Baltimore and
Mary Jane Berry is in Silver Springs, MD. In
Aberdeen, MD. Ann Spang Bennett is work-
ing as a general property and casualty in-
surance agent. She and her husband Tony are
building a house. Judy O'Keefe is a market
analyst in Glenridge, NJ. Rene Conover is also
living in New Jersey. Kathy Pretzfelder Steele
has a "terrific" job as an underwriting systems
specialist and regional coordinator for ten
Southern states for the company she repre-
sents. Last summer, Fred and Debbie Pollock
Meyer helped Kathy and Dave move into their
new house.
Last October. Joan May Harden. luWeJohn-
son Evans. Susan Miller, and Abby Allen had
a mini-reunion in Manhattan. Betsy Cann
Akers is in international corporate finance
with a wall street firm which sends her to Paris
occasionally. On her way home in October,
she ran into Robin Harmon O'Neil. Melinda
Williams has been elected an Assistant Vice-
President in Manufacturers Hanover Trust's
National Division. She lives in New York City
and represents the bank in Virginia and in
D.C. Also at Manufacturers Hanover Cor-
poration is Georgia Tucker Tuttle who is in
charge of short-term funding of the company's
subsidiaries. Georgia's husband Chris is now a
Vice-President at Bankers Trust. Georgia and
Chris are enjoying their busy life in Bronxville,
playing lots of tennis with Mimi Bain Haik
and Barrett, who moved to New York City last
year.
Last Thanksgiving. Laurie Norris Solywoda
and her husband Andy were married in a
small family ceremony. In Red Hook, NY,
Laurie is working for Orchard Hill Farms as
Executive Assistant to the President. She is
supervising two major departments — sales
and purchasing — and is extremely busy. Andy
has just finished six months of video studio
training. Scottie O'Toole is living in
Cazenovia, NY. Lucinda Young Larson is now
the manager of corporate cost estimating for a
corporation in Amsterdam, NY. She and her
husband (who is an art director for a company
in Old Charham, NY) bought a house in
Niskayuna. Chris Mendel Rogers joined the
U.S.A.F. about a year ago. She spent three
months in officer training school and then
eight months in communication electronics
school. Both she and John are stationed at
Griffiss A.F.B. in New York, and they bought
a beautiful old house nearby which they are
renovating.
Since last August Valerie Fannon Phillips
and Tom have been living in Syracuse, NY,
where they have bought a house. Tom is an
assistant sales manager with Continental Can
Co., and Valerie is the manager of a Burger
King Restaurant.
Jane Lowery Tierney and John have been
busy buying and settling into their new con-
dominium. Taffy Kuhns Dimancescu and her
husband Dan (who is in the map business) just
bought and moved into an old farmhouse in
Lincoln. MA, that borders Audubon Ponds.
In Barnstable, MA. Karen Nielsen Gram-
maticus and Andy's 2'/2-year old Peter was
joined by Katherine Elizabeth in May. Bob
and Weezie Blakeslee Gilpin have built a
house on the Vineyard. They are living most of
the time at Milton Academy in a dormitory
with 50 high school-aged boys. Jane Knutson-
James and Michael went to the Chesapeake
Bay for their honeymoon last August. Jane
was working for a surveying firm doing title
research last fall. Also in Vermont is Jane Mc-
Cutchen McFadden. her husband Barclay,
and their son. They are loving cross-country
skiing. Jane is helping manage their natural
foods store and buying kitchen items.
Pamela Rasche is specializing in labor law
at the U. of Wisconsin Law School in addition
to managing a small book store in Madison.
Bob and Cindy Redman McCullough went
on their belated honeymoon trip to Ireland
and Scotland in January. They were married
in June and waited until Janaury so that they
could foxhunt in Ireland. Cindy is teaching.
Nearly every weekend this winter they went
skiing. Last summer they got together with
Rita Anselmo Sileo and Gordon.
Betsy Oakley Smith is enjoying working for
the Connecticut State Department of Public
Health on an immunization project. Smitty is
in his second year at Yale Law School. Jane
Lucas was Creigh Casey Krin's maid of honor
at Creigh's wedding. Creigh's husband. John,
is a cost accountant for a division of Textron.
Creigh. who only has two more courses to
complete for her masters, has been happily
working as Assistant Treasurer and Branch
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Manager at First Federal. Also in Waterbury,
CT, is Donna Crouch Campbell, who until
November was working as a psychiatric social
worker at a state hospital. Her present oc-
cupation is MOM. Before being transferred to
the New York office of Random House, Chris
Eng was an editorial assistant to the science
editors in the college textbook department.
Chris feels that her B.A. in Biology has really
helped her in her work, as well as her M.S. in
Science Education. She now commutes from
Connecticut to New York. Other traveling in-
cluded a recent trip to the Virgin Islands.
At Indiana U. Karol Kroetz Sparks is at-
tending law school. Also in law is Linda
Moscaio Buell who has been an attorney in the
Enforcement Division of the U.S. En-
vironmental Protection Agency in Chicago.
She is getting an M.B.A. at the U. of Chicago
at night. Her husband Ardin is also a lawyer
and is also getting his M.B.A. at night. Diane
Dale has an exciting new job as a sales
representative for the Flying Tiger Line, ap-
parently the largest airline dealing in air
freight between the U.S. and Asia. Jan Keith
returned recently from Paris, where she spent
four months completing the research for her
Ph.D. dissertation. While in Paris, she became
engaged to a man who is also a medieval
musicologist.
Tina Sheris Wood and John bought a house
last spring in Iowa City, IA, and went to
Europe last May for a month. Marion McKee
Humphreys is very happy. She is a legal
assistant and in her spare time is taking lots of
dance courses. This spring she plans to per-
form. Her husband Hunter is working hard as
a lawyer and made time to run in the N.Y.C.
Marathon last October. He has Marion
jogging a few miles too. She had a wonderful
visit with Jane McCutchen McFadden at
Christmas.
Living in St. Louis, Cathy Conner is
working for Pan Am, running a photographic
print gallery, and renovating an eighty-five
year old home. Chris Hegarty Savage and her
husband Pat spent a weekend skiing with Jean
Piatt in February. Chris is supervisor of the
Coagulation Department in the Hematology
Laboratory at University Hospitals of
Cleveland, while her husband is in graduate
school in an M.B.A. progTam. Cindy Bekins is
in the real estate business in Omaha and is
loving it. She is also in the process of
redecorating her new apartment. Alice Mcln-
nis is completing her first year of residency in
general surgery this June. Candy Sheffield
Nielson is job hunting in Bethany, OK. where
her husband Keith is in a new position as a
Flight Safety Inspector for the F.A.A.
Carter Heyward Morris, Lisa Marshall.
Alison Baker, Lee Brennan Kidd. Lee Ad-
dison Chandler, and Charlotte Battle are all
making Nan Robertson Clarke feel at home in
Atlanta. In April Nan married Hal Clarke who
was a classmate at W&L Law School. Carter
Heyward Morris and Hampton just wrapped
up a major remodeling job on a sixty-five-
year-old cottage. Carter designs training
programs for First National Bank and Hamp-
ton is a business lawyer. Lisa Marshall is
working at a brokerage house. She sees Emily
Garth Brown and Susan Craig Burnett often.
Alison Baker is a producer with J. Walter
Thompson Advertising Agency. In February
she had just finished some T.V. commercials
for the Ford Company. Lee Brennan Kidd is
keeping busy on several committees, is in-
volved with the SBC Alum Club and with a
garden club, and is going to exercise classes.
In New Orleans, Dessa Rutter is suc-
cessfully selling real estate, substituting, and
tutoring. Debi Ziegler is presently associated
with a law firm and is also Assistant City At-
torney for the Civil Law Department of New
Orleans. Liza Slatten received her M.B.A.
from Tulane in December. She is now
devoting all her energy to finishing the second
half of her law school curriculum. Alison
Baker was Lisa's houseguest during the King
Tut exhibit. Mac Cuthbert Langley and her
husband visited Lisa during Mardi Gras, as
well as Charlotte Battle, who was there for her
seventh Mardi Gras visit this year. Last
August during Lisa's semester break, she went
on a three week road trip from San Francisco
to Vancouver, B.C. Our illustrious class
president. Betsie Meric Gambel, was Chair-
man of the United States Yacht Racing
Women's Regional Regatta at the Southern
Yacht Club last summer and for four months
was a King Tut volunteer at the New Orleans
Museum of Art. She is organizing a group of
people to act as "coordinate" board to the
Protestant Home for Babies to deal with foster
parenting, in addition to tutoring, substitute
teaching, and working at a public television
station on an auction board. Her husband,
Greg, became a partner this winter in a law-
firm with which he was previously associated.
Last summer on a trip north. Betsie saw Jen-
nifer Wherry Elrod, Lee Addison Chandler,
Sue Dern Plank, and Ginger Woodward Gast.
Last November Magee Leigh spent a month
with Betsie and Greg and Gregory.
Cathy Rasmussen Rentzel is leading a full
life with her family in Dallas, where Chris has
his own law firm. Renee Sterling is also living
in Dallas in a ranch-style home with her
husband Tom Swift. She sees Leigh Schopfer
whenever she passes Leigh's clothing store. In
Morton, TX, Sally Slaughter Lilly had just
ended in February her four years of teaching
biology and chemistry. She and her husband
Bob proceeded to take a two-week Carribean
cruise. They both had graduated from the U.
of Texas. Dorsie Buck Harrison is very happily
settled in San Antonio with her family. Her
husband Charlie is working hard as a resident
in Ob/Gyn, and Dorsie is busy with their son,
Bible studies, and Red Cross Work.
Several of our classmates are now in
California. Cathy Towers Hardage and her
family will have just moved for the third time
in two years when you read this. This move
was from Escondido to Oakland, where
husband Robert has accepted a residency
position in radiology at the Oakland Naval
Hospital. In April Lisa Fowler was busy
working as a legal librarian and preparing for
her wedding in Southern California and
honeymoon trip to Hawaii. Alison Fifer
Stonecipher is living with her husband Daniel
in Santa Barbara and working as the per-
sonnel director at a hospital. In San Jose Mary
Buxton is working at a family planning clinic.
Mary is participating in many sports. She even
has gone snow-camping. After SBC, Monica
Cash taught English Conversation on the
Riviera. When she returned from France to
Lynchburg, she taught Spanish. In 1975 she
moved to Sacramento where she worked as an
international secretary in the export business
and for a chain department store in the
receiving department. She is now attending
California State U. at Sacramento and is
working as a tourist guide for the City of
Sacramento.
Mary Danford is finishing her last semester
of law school in Oregon. As of March, she was
planning to run in the six-to-seven-mile road
races on the weekends. Her husband Michael
finished his first marathon last fall.
As for our internationally-located class-
mates, Lisa Wickham Farnum is loving
Mexico. Deidre Conley is planning to stay in
the Ivory Coast area for several more years.
She and her husband are both high school
teachers — she in English and he in Math-
Physics. Jane Olmstead Murphy and her
family live in Brussels. Also living in Brussels
in a newly purchased house are Trish Gilhooly
O'Neill and her husband.
John and I had a fantastic honeymoon in
Hawaii last June after our wedding celebration
in Pasadena, which Jane McFaddin and Lisa
Fowler were able to attend. John's business is
really doing well — he has expanded the
business to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and
Honolulu. I completed my M.Ed, in Special
Education/Early Childhood at the U. of
Washington last June. In September, I ac-
cepted the position of Head of the Education
Department at the Spastic Aid Council's
Children's Clinic and Preschool in Seattle,
where I work with children who have cerebral
palsy and other neurological impairments. We
moved into our new house in November, spent
Christmas at Lake Tahoe, and were in Hawaii
over spring vacation. As of April. I am the
Seattle SBC Alum Club President.
NOTICE TO ALL ALUMNAE
If your address changes, please let the
Alumnae Office have your new address
promptly.
1977
Secretary
Sally Bonham Mohle (Mrs. Peter H.), 10196
Winchester Ct., Manassas, VA 22110
Fund Agent
Kathleen Roantree, 1916 Columbia Pike, Apt.
5., Arlington, VA 22204
Marriages
Ann Crossingham to William Coltrane Can-
non. Jr.
Sally Bonham to Pete Mohle
Engagement
Kristy Judson to Jim Houston
Ramona Akins is enrolled as a full-time
student at the Medical College of Virginia, in
the School of Pharmacy.
Barbara Bernick Martin and husband
Wayne were married Sept. 10, 1977, and have
settled in Richmond, VA.
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Sally Bonham Mohle and Pete were married
in February with Becky Mayer as maid-of-
honor. They are living in Manassas, VA. Sally
is working as Officer Manager for Colonial
Title Company and Pete is an accountant for a
CPA firm in Silver Spring. MD.
Martha Branch is currently seeking an
M.Ed, with endorsement in Emotional Distur-
bance and certification in Learning Dis-
abilities at VCU.
Lola Brock quit her job and moved back
home with plans to go to Katherine Gibbs in
Boston.
Laurie Burrell is living in the Northern
Virginia area and working as a career coun-
selor for the Career Center in McLean.
Elvira Cash is living at home and working at
the Hoadley Montessori School in Cheshire.
CT. She teaches 2Vi to 5-year-olds, which she
finds challenging. This past summer she com-
pleted a beginning Japanese course at Yale.
Muffie Clegg is living in Charleston, WV,
and working as a paralegal for the law firm of
Love. Wise. Robinson and Woodsie. She is the
firm's first paralegal and has her own
secretary!
Lyndi Cote is teaching school in a private
Catholic school in Northern Virginia. In April
she was the Cherry Blossom Princess from
New Hampshire for the Cherry Blossom
Festival.
Farnell Cowan just finished a course at
Katharine Gibbs and is moving to Boston to
work for a law firm.
Sarah Croft finished at Vanderbilt with a
major in Art History and a minor in Classical
Studies. She just returned from two months in
Puerto Vallarta. Mexico, where she and her
two sisters bought a house and worked on its
remodeling. She hopes to go to London for the
next year or two to get training as an art ap-
praiser.
Ann Crossingham Cannon and husband
Bill have settled in Mt.Airy, where Ann is an
assistant yarn buyer at Spencer's Inc.
Christine Davis plans to begin law school
in Sept. 1978.
Harriet Dinegar is on the "PhD track" in
the Dept. of Anthropology at the U. of Pa.
Susan Faist is studying chemical
engineering at MIT and says it's harder than
SBC and not nearly as enjoyable. She was
planning a visit to London.
Debbie Falcigno is working as an assistant
in research to the Directors Clinical Staff at
the Gesell Institute of Child Development in
New Haven. CT. She has plans for a degree in
clinical psychology.
Becky Frost Good and Steve were married
in June 1977 and went to Bermuda for their
honeymoon. They are presently in New Haven,
CT, where Steve is in Yale Law School and
Becky is Credit Manager at the Second New-
Haven Bank.
Cathy Goodhart is working for the First
National Bank of Atlanta as a management
trainee and living with Paula Brumm.
Mary Greaves was graduated from Kansas
U. with a degree in Classical Antiquities and is
presently working as a cardiovascular
technician at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas
City. She's also up to her ears with Jr. League
Provisional work.
Linda Guardabassi spent a leisurely sum-
mer after graduation travelling on the East
Coast visiting SBC girls and interviewing. In
September she went to work for the Rouse
Company of Columbia, MD, at the Hulen
Mall in Ft. Worth. TX. where she is com-
munity relations director, an advertising job.
Peggy Haley is working at Newsteter's in
Denver and is hoping to go to France this
summer on the Experiment in International
Living program, where she would be one of the
leaders for college kids.
Annie Hamilton is working at a travel agen-
cy in Kansas City, mostly with groups, and
loves it.
Debi Hubble says the girls in Admissions
were really busy this year, travelling, having
lots of fun and trying to stay out of trouble.
Kristy Judson is busy planning a November
wedding. She and Jim will be living in the
Cleveland area. She's working as an ar-
chitectural representative for roofing
materials for M. H. Judson and Assoc, in
Cleveland.
Betsy Kilborn started with Pan Am in May.
1977, and is based in New York (City). She's
travelling all over the world using her various
languages.
Glenn King Springer and John are living in
Tuscaloosa, AL, where Glenn is "learning to
keep house" and working in a shop that sells
some antiques.
Carla Kinney is at Xavier U. in Cincinnati,
OH, doing grad work for a Master's in Health
and Hospital Administration with a major
concentration in management engineering.
She will finish her academic work in August
and start a one-year administrative residency
at Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati. Fiance
Alan was promoted and transferred to
Cleveland, TN. where in February he bought a
house, which he and Carla are busy fixing up.
Carla's graduate work won't be completed un-
til August 1979. so they're planning on an Oc-
tober 1979 wedding.
Lucy Kimbrough travelled for two months
after graduation, going around the world. She
is working in an analytical chemistry lab,
mostly testing oils from airplanes and elec-
trical transformers. She spends her spare time
jogging and bike riding and visiting the or-
thodondist getting a "mouth of stainless
steel."
Debbie Koss McCarthy and David bought a
home in Charlotte, NC, in September and are
having fun fixing it up. She is working as a
paralegal for a large corporate law firm.
Louise Lambert is working at B. Altman &
Company in New York City, as assistant buyer
in the toy department.
Ebet Little is enjoying herself at Duke,
working on a Master's in Business Ad-
ministration.
Treacy Markey is living and working in New
York at Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. as the
assistant editor in Home Furnishings for
Modern Bride magazine. She's also working
toward a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and
taking courses at the New York School of In-
terior Design. She and Kate Kelley '76 are
living in a brownstone apartment six blocks
from where Treacy works.
Jane Mooney is working as a supervisor in
the Safekeeping/Special Service Division at
Continental Bank. This past fall she played
field hockey for the North Shore Hockey Club.
Anne Marshall is working on a Master's
degree at the Virginia Institute of Marine
Science in Gloucester Point, enjoying the
people and having a great time.
Stephanie Maxson is a legislative
correspondent on Capitol Hill, working for
Congressman Ketchum.
Becky Mayer is working in Albert. MN, as a
private tutor to a 12-year-old girl, and loves it.
She lives on a huge ranch, with room, board
and salary provided.
Robin Holman Mills works in 2nd grade as
a Title I teacher's aide. She and Alan bought a
house in Paducah at Thanksgiving.
Nancy Nichols Roe is redoing an old house
in Crawfordsville, IN. Her roommate. Edie
Durham (Corpus Christi). is getting married
in June.
Mary Palmer is working as an advertising
public relations trainee at a firm in Nashville.
She's living in an old house near Vanderbilt
U. with a roommate who is an "insane per-
son" and a nurse on the sex-change ward of
Vanderbilt U. Hospital. Mary reports that
Carrie Griscom is in gTad school at the U. of
Ohio at Athens.
Joy Ann Petro is working for a law firm in
Washington. D.C., as secretary to head of the
firm.
Molly Reeb and Barb Clark are living in
Norfolk, VA, where Molly is working for
Merrill Lynch. Pierce. Fenner & Smith.
Anne Rubel is a picture editor in the
Special Publications Division of the National
Geographic Society in Washington. D.C. She
had her first picture published by National
Geographic recently. Anne is also free-
lancing as a model, a commercial illustrator
and does oil paintings on commission.
Jo Jo Scott is work on Capitol Hill for
Congressman Charles Bennett of Florida.
Jo Ella Schneider is living with Lyndi Cote
in Alexandria. VA, and working as a special
assistant in a lab at Georgetown U. in
Washington, D.C.
Ellen Sullivan is doing graduate work at
Georgetown U. in biology.
Marianela Soto went to Chile last summer,
but was unable to find a job there because of
the poor state of the economy. She's currently
living in Chevy Chase, MD, taking several
Child Psychology courses at George
Washington U. and teaching art in a
parochial school to grades 1 through 3. She's
also doing therapy for learning-disabled
children at a private school for exceptional
children.
Sarah Steel is living on her own in New
York City, working for First Boston Cor-
poration, an investment banking firm. She
works with fixed income (corporate bond)
research and loves it.
Ellyn Tetlow was planning to be married in
June.
Beth Wade is at the UNC Chapel Hill grad
school in math. She reports that she enjoys it
but the "studying is rough."
Tricia Waters is living in Boston with Ains-
lie Jones '76 and working for a large law firm
there. She and Ainslie visited Cheri Stipp in
time for the Kentucky Derby and had a won-
derful time.
Libby White is now working for the
American Horse Shows Assn. on Madison
Avenue.
Janet Williams has an apartment with Ellie
Weld in New York and is the managment
training program of IBM.
Joan Stinnett Woody and Pat are in
Madison Heights. VA. Joan is doing some
substitute teaching and looking for a per-
manent job.
Parti Wornom is working towards a degree
in Library Science at the U. of South Carolina.
Stella Wright works for the Trust Company.
Bank of Atlanta.
Vivian Yamaguchi is hard at work as a first
year law student at Loyola U. School of Law in
Chicago, finding the classes exciting and in-
teresting.
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Journalism and the Liberal Arts:
by Elder Witt Wellborn '67
I firmly believe that vocational courses, of which
journalism is an example, are out-of-place in a liberal
arts college. The purpose of a liberal arts education is to
broaden one's views and tastes by offering an oppor-
tunity, in a limited time under expert direction, to
sample a wide variety of disciplines and subjects. Jour-
nalism courses are "how-to" courses, and I am not even
an advocate of a graduate degree in journalism.
My career is a compound one: writing and mothering
(our daughter Rachel will be two and one-half in
August). I feel I should fill in the "occupation" blank
with "juggler," and that is the aspect of my life for which
SBC prepared me. I never took a journalism course in
my life; after ten years in the field I can honestly say I
have never felt any lack. What I did need professional-
ly. Sweet Briar gave me in full measure, surprisingly
deep and long-lasting grounding in many areas from
history of the drama to the Old Testament to American
government to chemistry with a bit of thermodynamics
thrown in. I never worked for a school publication after
high school, neither at Sweet Briar nor at Chapel Hill
(but was Phi Beta at UNO, nor held any offices at
Sweet Briar.
The Congressional Quarterly is a privately owned
news service and book publisher which covers matters
of Congress, government and politics. I tackle fairly
complex subjects from the intricacies of the criminal
law reform bill to the technicalities of secondary and
tertiary recovery methods for worn-out oil and gas fields.
I need to relate those facts and issues in everyday lan-
guage. That I learned at Sweet Briar . . .
If a person is truly interested in journalism, the best
way to test that interest and begin acquiring the relevant
skills is to go to the nearest respectable publication and
get a part-time job or summer job and start learning!
My luck was to start, the summer after my second year
at SBC, as an intern with the Chattanooga Times, a job
to which I returned three summers. I learned that work
could be fun, and by watching and listening and being
edited with care, I began to acquire the skills on which I
am still working. So, I didn't have to pay for that on-
the-job education, I got paid. And I didn't waste valuable
academic hours learning those same things. I have come
to value more than ever the flexibility of mind which a
liberal arts education develops. It is of inestimable value
for me to be able to slip immediately from the role of
mother into the writer's role, to turn from Richard
Scarry's Word Book to consideration of the Supreme
Court's latest pronouncement on the states' powers of
taxation, and vice-versa.
—Washington, DC. Elder Witt Wellborn '67, writer-editor, the Con-
gressional Quarterly. College major: Latin. Elder Wellborn's mother
is Florence Bagley Witt '42 of Chattanooga, who is a former member
of the Executive Board of the Alumnae Association. Elder's husband
Stanley is associate editor of US News & World Report, where he writes
about higher education, TV, communications, mental health and other
subjects.
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Two Comments
by Susan Harte '61
— Atlanta, GA. Susan Harte '61. M.A. in journalism, Univ. Georgia,
1975; journalism instructor, DeKalb College, office manager of
Atlanta bureau of Newsweek, editor of Georgia Commerical Post.
published writer of theatre reviews, food columns, fiction, manuscript
editor, promotor for GA Theatre Conference convention, business
writer and ghost writer. Recipient of a NEH Fellowship, 1978, for
work on "Individual Rights and the Public Good in Medical Treat-
ment."
As for journalism at Sweet Briar. I'd have these
comments: the instructor should have a healthy
helping, as varied as possible, of the real world. In this
field, academics without reality are useless and distorted
and vice-versa. The working journalist with limited aca-
demic discipline can be an intellectual derelict on an
ego trip at the expense of students. Such a course or
courses might be geared to making good media con-
sumers of students rather than toward pouring more
people into a job market that is glutted and intensely
competitive.
Since late 1975 I've been working as an independent
contractor for editorial and promotional services, hiring
other writers, graphic artists, etc., as needed. My busi-
ness involves only commercial writing, not "artsy" writ-
ing, ranging from the simple brochure to the annual re-
port, with stops in between at profiles of individuals for
major magazines or newspapers.
Trends indicate that the people who enjoy the most
success are those who combine the thought processes
of the highly educated with the practical skills of the
craftsman. There are few degrees, even on the graduate
level, that are ironclad guarantees of success in the work
arena . . . If you anticipate working, then nothing offered
you in college is irrelevant. The importance of broad,
general knowledge will become self-evident and its
benefits tangible when coupled with practical experience
and a mature attitude.
That experience is vitally important. I would think
that any liberal arts student who works whenever pos-
sible and who takes certain courses would manage to
find interesting work. The work could be anything. The
primary reason for it is to be able to have something on
a resume besides the choir or debating society, some-
thing that indicates that a foundation has been started.
The courses that might complement a liberal arts cur-
riculum include business, basic law, statistics, enough
math to understand bottom-line business economics,
and marketing, since every company utilizes marketing
concepts in some way. It is also important to be practi-
cally bi-lingual, meaning spoken French in addition to
the ability to translate Rabelais.
The mature attitude is harder to come by. For the
beginning career woman, it probably means two things:
knowing what can reasonably be expected from any
vocational endeavor; and, a career-minded woman
should prepare a loosely-structured set of goals that will
allow her to decide when it is time for her to move on.
Finally, let's understand that rampant feminism does
none of us any good when it is shrouded in angry rheto-
ric. Women who demand equal privileges will have an
uphill battle for a long time to come; starters (beginners)
should fully understand that doing a man's work means
assuming a man's responsibility.
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The International Flavor
of Sweet Briar
by Carolyn McKee
• • I 'm studying economics at Sweet Briar because
A I'm interested in going into international
business, says Swee Lan Wong '81, whose father is in
the export business in Malaysia.
Michele Wajsbrot improves her English while doing
research on institutions and communities in American
life. She plans to teach English when she returns to her
native France.
"I'm concerned about the political situation in Bang-
ladesh," says Subhi Ali '80. "That's partly why I am
studying international relations here."
Jeanette Mehl '78 of Mexico City studies dance, art
history and economics at Sweet Briar. Her story, "The
Stranded Shoes," has been published by the Institute
for Children's Literature. She believes that "a writer
should know about everything."
These and 22 other international students from exotic
places like Sri Lanka and Maracaibo come to Sweet
Briar because they believe that Sweet Briar gives them
better training and experience than do colleges and
universities in their own countries. Elaine Arozarena
'81, for example, is studying environmental sciences and
hopes to return to Mexico to work in ecology. Juliette
Cendron '81, whose family lives south of Paris, finds
that Sweet Briar "gives me the kind of education I can't
get in France. Here I don't have to specialize. My friends
in France are going into the specialized universities
there. But I'm not sure what I want to do yet. So I'm
taking lots of different courses in English, biology and
art."
Juliette is not disappointed in her expectations about
the kind of education Sweet Briar offers. She compares
Sweet Briar's faculty to the image of the typical profes-
sor at a Parisian university. "A couple of times a week
the professor comes into the lecture hall, lectures and
then leaves. That's all you see of him for the entire term.
If there's something you don't understand in the lecture,
you've got to figure it out for yourself. The teachers here
aren't like that." French university students are ex-
pected to pace themselves without much direct feedback
in the form of homework, quizzes or classroom discus-
sion. The test of their understanding comes only at
the end of the course, when they pass an examination
which may cover a year's material.
Juliette isn't happy, however, with every aspect of
American education: "American students expect to have
A's and B's. They expect to be graded on the basis of the
effort they put into their work. In France it's the results
that count, not how much effort you put into it."
The international students are truly international
in the sense of having family or sororal ties in this coun-
try as well as in their home countries. Two of this year's
French students have American mothers. Jamila
Champsi's '80 family, originally from western India,
settled in Boston after being forced for political reasons
to leave a home and business in East Africa. Teresa Tan
'79 who grew up in Maracaibo, has been living with rela-
tives and going to school in the United States since she
was 14. Although she visits her parents in Venezuela
once a year, she spends the summer holidays in the
Northeast. Sandra Rappaccioli '80 has many American
friends from her high school days in Atlanta, where her
parents sent her after a major earthquake in Nicaragua
closed the schools there.
Those international students who don't have Ameri-
can relatives here have a more difficult time. One home-
sick student from the other side of the world visited
relatives in Canada shortly after her arrival at Sweet
Briar and never came back. Most of the students, how-
ever, quickly make friends at Sweet Briar and in the
community. Faculty members, Amherst and Lynchburg
families, as well as the families of American students
at Sweet Briar invite students to celebrate holidays with
them. The Student Affairs Office is printing an infor-
mation handbook for international students, and the
students themselves have formed a club which meets
to exchange news and plan off-campus activities.
Foreign students' observations on life at Sweet Briar
are sensitive, astute and as diverse as the nationalities
represented. While many of them like the size and loca-
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Kathleen Kavanagh '74
Four of Sweet Briar's international students for 1977-78 are shown
above (left to right): Swee Ian Wong, from Malaysia; Sandra Rap-
paccioli, from Nicaragua; Juliette Cendron, from France; Fariba
Afshar-Bakeshley, from Iran. The complete list is appended below.
tion of the College, others do not. Lay Theng Lee '80
from Malaysia feels "surrounded and imprisoned by
the enormous mountains of the Blue Ridge." Some
foreign students feel isolated and complain that they
have no means of transportation to leave campus. Fariba
Afshar-Bakeshley '79 of Teheran criticizes the cost of
travel in this country. "In Iran, outside of Teheran,
you can take a taxi for eight cents anywhere you want
to go!" Juliette Cendron is amazed by how much the
students drive their cars. "Girls think nothing of driv-
ing to Washington and Lee (an hour's drive) for an
evening. We'd never do that in France," she says.
The European students, as we might expect, have a
sophisticated perception of the United States and of the
American character. Valerie Dupont, whose mother is
American and father French, describes the typical
American girl as "naive," but quickly adds that "this is
a stereotype, as everyone knows, of American girls. It's
not really fair of me to say this, since I haven't been here
long enough to form my own judgments." She observes
that American students are very sure of themselves
and also unreserved. "They talk about their personal
lives to people they don't know. This is something a
French person would not do." Many international stu-
dents at Sweet Briar like our American lack-of-reserve
and our friendliness.
Afshar-Bakeshley, Fariba
Iran
All, Subhi
Bangladesh
Arozarena, Elaine
Mexico
Ateca, Carmen
Puerto Rico
Cendron, Juliette
France
Champsi, Jamila
Zanzibar
Dao, Hong Van
Vietnam
Dupont, Valerie
France
Hoyos, Patty
Italy
Icgoren, Nese
Turkey
Lee, Lay Theng
Malaysia
Luther, Carmini
Sri Lanka
Luther, Sharmini
Sri Lanka
McTaggart, Kathleen
England
Mehl, Jeanette
Mexico
Rappaccioli, Sandra
Nicaragua
Richani, Diana
Venezuela (Beirut)
Richani, Randa
Venezuela (Beirut)
Sahni, Lily
Iran
Senanayake, Shantini
Sri Lanka
Tan, Teresa
Venezuela
Teng, Annette
Malaysia
Wajsbrot, Michele
France
Weber, Marlene
Philippines
Wong, Swee Lan
Malaysia
Zurek, Julie
Columbia
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Chemistry is Alive and Well
by John McClenon
Tthe fortunes of chemistry have varied considerably
in the thirteen years that I have been at Sweet
Briar. At one point we had five staff members and 100
students in the introductory course. Then degree re-
quirements changed, instruments began to wear out and
there was no money to replace them, the staff declined
to two and one-half and enrollments in the introductory
course dropped as low as 35. Throughout this period,
however, the quality of the students taking chemistry
remained high and the number of majors gradually
began to increase.
A dramatic improvement has occurred in the last two
years. The first major event was the receipt of the
Virginia Lazenby O'Hara bequest. Some of the income
from this gift is designated for the purchase of scien-
tific equipment. The chemistry department's share of
this money was spent to replace the worn-out infrared
spectrometer and to purchase a scanning ultraviolet-
visible spectrometer and atomic absorption instrumen-
tation. These instruments are used to determine how
much and what kind of materials are present in a
sample. Neither of the latter two instruments had pre-
viously been available for our students. Dana Dotten '78
and Pat Hoyos '79, both chemistry majors, did research
projects using these instruments this past semester. At
the present level of funding, we shall be able to pur-
chase a major item of equipment every year or two and
thus dramatically improve the quality of our holdings
in this most important area of chemistry.
In addition, the science departments jointly have
purchased a laboratory computer with funds from the
O'Hara bequest. This purchase will enable us to teach
the techniques of instrument interfacing and computer
control of experiments. This is undoubtedly the most
rapidly expanding area in science today and this com-
puter will put us near the forefront in the development
of these systems. I'll be spending my sabbatical leave —
1978-79 — developing programs which will enable us to
use the computer in experimentation in the sciences.
Professor of Chemistry John R. McClenon received the B.A. degree
from Grinnell College and the Ph.D. degree from the University of
California at L.A. in 1964. He is a member of the American Chemical
Society, Sigma Xi, International Society for Thermal Analysis, the
American Civil Liberties Union, the First Unitarian Church and the
Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra.
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TRI-COLLEGE CENTER
OFVIRGINIA
The second major event in the renewal was catalyzed
by the receipt of grants from the Camille and Henry
Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., and from the National Science
Foundation. These grants are for further development
of the cooperative efforts among the chemistry depart-
ments of Sweet Briar, Randolph-Macon Woman's Col-
lege and Lynchburg College. This Tri-College Chemistry
Consortium hopes to be able to maintain the identity of
each department while moving toward solution of the
problems of low enrollment in advanced courses, de-
creased staff size and the rapidly increasing cost and
variety of instruments which are necessary in order to
offer an adequate major in chemistry.
Members of the three departments began meeting
ten years ago to start working out some of the diffi-
culties, but the grants have enabled us to concentrate
our efforts and accomplish a great deal in a short time.
Last summer (1977) nine faculty members from the
three colleges met for three weeks, eight hours a day,
five days a week. If nothing else, we certainly came to
know one another better! We agreed on the topics to be
covered in each course so that a student from one col-
lege who had the prerequisites for a course at another
institution would have the necessary background for
that course. We decided which courses to offer on a co-
operative basis, struggled over problems of meals and
transportation for students taking a course at another
college, tried to work around the problem of schedul-
ing courses into three of the most peculiar weekly sched-
ules anywhere, agreed on dates for courses and work-
shops which caused the minimum conflict with the
calendars at the three colleges, decided what we would
do if a course offered by one college had enrollment
from the other colleges but none from the home campus.
etc., etc., etc. Then, miracle of miracles! The deans and
business managers from all three colleges agreed to
these arrangements. We also conducted a logo contest;
the winning design is printed with this article. (I won
a prize for the most entries submitted.)
As a result of this planning, the TCC (Tri-College
Consortium) has offered two courses this year which
previously had not been available on any of the three
campuses. Radiochemistry was taught at Lynchburg
College the first semester and Medicinal Chemistry
was offered at Randolph-Macon this past spring. Two
of our students took the latter course. In addition, we
have given six workshops thus far on specialized topics:
microprocessors, chemical literature, mass spectro-
scopy, specific ion electrodes, theoretical spectroscopy
and operation amplifiers. These sessions allowed us
to deal in depth with topics that are not adequately
covered in regular courses and to call on the expertise
of one faculty member so that all of us, faculty and stu-
dents alike, could learn together.
Just a note about faculty research. Dr. Helen Gager,
assistant professor of chemistry at Sweet Briar, and I
have both received summer faculty research positions
with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Since
only 60 of these are given nationally, we are very pleased
that both full-time members of the department received
these awards.
The combination of all of the above factors makes
me optimistic about the future of chemistry at Sweet
Briar. Expanded opportunity to take advanced courses,
access to modern instrumentation and contact with a
wide variety of specialists in the discipline should en-
able us to continue to offer a sound major in chemistry
at Sweet Briar.
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A Comprehensive Exhibit
The paintings, drawings, and photographs of
five Sweet Briar seniors were on display in the gal-
lery and lobby of Babcock Fine Arts Center in May. A
variety of materials — oils, watercolors, graphite — and
techniques — drawing, printing, and photography — were
represented in the show, as well as a diversity of artistic
themes from high representational works to sensitive
explorations of form in space and intense expressions
of mood and emotion.
Movement of forms in space is the theme of a series
of works by Barbara Behrens of New York, "Flying
Low" and "Winter Stream" No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3,
explore in different media the way certain natural forms,
the arc of a bird's wing or the bend of a stream, move
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through space. A more self-conscious and conceptual
exploration of the same theme is "Graphicraft No. 32
Normal Prespective Chart 2 Series IA," in which a
highly contoured, three-dimensional still life is set
against flat two-dimensional graph paper — "Graphi-
craft No. 32" — thereby creating a surreal effect.
Psychic, rather than conceptual or spatial, explora-
tion is the concern of Mary K. Page of Vermont. Her
abstract, expressionistic works, titled "Manic Depres-
sive Psychoses: Manic Reaction and Depressive Reac-
tion," "Wistful," "Pressured Contemplation," and
"Loneliness," culminate in'a striking series of pieces titled
"Self- Portrait," which represents a ghostly, larger-than-
life figure floating a little above and in front of a chair.
Hanging their Senior Exhibits is a partly ceremonial occasion and is accompanied by feelings of mixed apprehension (the jury, you know) and
pride of accomplishment. The five seniors are: Mary Frank Saunders (opposite page); Barbara Behrens (top left); Lauren Place (top right);
Katherine Powell (lower left); and Mary Page (lower right), all '78.
Katherine Powell of Halifax, VA, combines her skill
as a draughtsman with her interest in biology and med-
icine to create highly detailed, accurate drawings of
plants and human figures.
"Moscow at Night" and "Zagorsk in Spring" capture
the theme of Lauren Place's skillful drawings and paint-
ings. Place, a New Yorker who visited Russia last year,
creates a collage effect with images of traditional Rus-
sia and modern Soviet Union in "Impressions of Rus-
sia." "What Is His Sickness?" which would be an excel-
lent illustration for a crusade against the abuses of
vodka in Russia, was inspired by her discovery of a skid
row of drunks in Moscow. Place Hopes to begin selling
her work this year in a family antique and print shop
in Nantucket.
"Birds in Flight" is the first drawing and theme of
work by Mary Saunders of Roanoke. Less interested in
the specific details of different kinds of birds than in
their expressive and emotional qualities, Saunders
recreates the airy movement of birds in her delicate
and imaginative pencil drawings.
This exhibition is part of the comprehensive require-
ment for the Sweet Briar degree in studio art. The stu-
dent selects works from various courses with the major-
ity of the works coming from advanced classes taken
in her senior year. The visual arts program at Sweet
Briar College is directed toward the study of the visual
communication of original ideas and experiences.
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the editor's
Blood Tie:
1978 National Book Award
Mar; Lee Settle '40 is the winner of the 1978 National Book Award
for her novel, Blood Tie. published by Houghton Mifflin. The author's
eighth novel, it concerns a group of expatriate Europeans and Ameri-
cans in a town on the Turkish coast. A New York Times reviewer said,
"Even for an experienced novelist, even for a good writer, she has done
a remarkable job of capturing the culture that is, in a sense, the most
important character in her book." She has written for Paris Review,
Harper's. Harper's Bazaar. Contact and other magazines and is the
recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Merrill Foundation
Award.
Mary Lee has written seven previous novels: The Love Eaters, The
Kiss of Kin. the Beulah trilogy: O Beulah Land. Know Nothing. Fight
Night on a Sweet Saturday: The Clam Shell and Prisons. Her non-
fiction includes All the Brave Promises, the account of her experiences
in the World War II RAF Women's Auxiliary, and The Scopes Trial.
All the Brave Promises, said the Times Literary Supplement, is "among
the few really good books to come out of the second war."
A native of Charleston, W.Va., Mary Lee has taught English at
Bard College and this year has taught at The University in Charlottes-
ville, where she now lives.
Several years ago Mary Lee Settle wrote remem-
brances of her Sweet Briar days (Alumnae Maga-
zine, spring 1967). She said in part:
It was the fall of the Roosevelt-Landon election in
1936. We arrived at Sweet Briar as freshmen with cabin
trunks from all over the country. Some of them had
pasted labels — from ships, from hotels in London and
Rome. I envied their possibility ... In the cabin trunks,
for safety, were almost identical dresses. If we were
lucky that year, we had black evening dresses. It was
the year of veils, Hal Kemp. Astaire and Rogers, fitted
black Chesterfields, and the word "sophistication."
We were, under the camouflage, as tentative as colts.
We watched each other for signs that we could be
friends. We began to know where to walk, under the
beautiful ripening of the trees in early fall. We walked
in pairs, learning what we wanted each other to know,
our new books balanced on our stomachs, our skirts
twelve inches from our saddle shoes. Gradually a process
took place, a melding. We wore our hair in pins during
the week. Our sweaters and skirts were Shetland, in the
mute colors of fruit.
Softly, into our honey heads, there was a permeation
of learning which I have never forgotten. Joseph Dexter
Bennett spilled chalk on his suit. Almost imperceptively,
he made us read Wordsworth. I remember reading/«?/-
mations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood alone in a classroom. Outside the leaves of
late fall were blowing across the road toward the Inn.
I remember hiding with books. There was an atmos-
phere of study — underground, an intrigue of brains and
talent and passion, suspected, derided then, blossoming
in secret. We looked at the structure of the fall leaves
under the microscopes of the botany lab. We pretended
34
"Softly, into our honey heads,
there was a permeation of learning. . ."
to be bored, but I have not forgotten their skeletal skeins,
their breathing mouths . . . We strolled through the Dell
to the frail voice teacher in a room in the gym, who tried
to train away our regional accents. We listened to the
Chapel Choir . . . We were opened to the religions of the
world by Miss Benedict (Mrs. Rollins). She spoke gently
and with passion, making us forget, as we listened to her,
our demanded pre-occupations. I found, in the library,
only three books of modern poetry. I shared them with
two friends. Behind it all, Miss Young protected us well
as she could against herding for convenience, against
administrative blindness to our needs.
All that was private. In the public of our rooms, and
in the Inn, we talked about the University, Princeton,
Yale. We chalked up invitations for weekends . . . They
were the days of proms, bloody battlefields of "popu-
larity," large orchestras, and dancing in long sweeps
like Astaire and Rogers. In the Commons Room we
smoked, played bridge, and danced together to break-
able, thick 78 records on the phonograph.
Near the time of examinations in the spring of that
year, it was hot and scented with new growth, green
and heavy. We recited German prepositions to each
other in a kind of last day panic. They are, after so long,
still in my head like a song, the meaning of which has
been forgotten. But they bring back spring and girls,
some tentative and lovely, some already frozen in their
tense certainty, as resistant to growth and change as
they would be for the rest of their lives, all waiting,
lounged about the Arcades for the Refectory to open.
I'm sure much of it is the same. Physical places have
their own timeless character — the smell of buildings and
the ground, the lushness of trees, small lamps over desks
in the rooms, where heads are bent over pools of light
... In my memory it is always the winter of 1936, which
moved into 1937 as the spring became unbearably sen-
suous and lovely over the country campus.
That was thirty years ago. I have published my sixth
book. It has been a long career and I have only begun it.
Now I teach for part of the year at Bard College . . .
Something has changed in the closed world of college,
perhaps more so at Bard, but I believe, from what I hear
of it, at Sweet Briar, too. I think it is good. I feel at home
in it for the first time. It is against the weight of the older
generation's anti-intellectual bias, against the old dis-
trust of budding talent, an outflow of acceptance, a
questing, a demand for questioning, for intelligence, for
creative work. It is the generation of our children — a
wonderful generation. We should take pride in them.
They, too, have their mores, their fashions, their ges-
tures. They have the same function as ours did — that
of recognition of each other. ... I have learned much
from my students and I am grateful for it. Wherever
there is a student concerned, about his or her rights,
about the institution, about self-expression, even about
self- gratification, about the world, that student is not
bored. Bored students are draining to teach. They
destroy the ebullience on which live, creative teaching
depends. They waste the time of their college, their
faculty and their peers. This generation of students is
not bored . . .
Some of our children walk under the same trees at
Sweet Briar, sit in the same class rooms, sun themselves
in the spring in the same Dell, have fashions that only
take the place of ours. But they are not us. Any attempt
on our part to recreate our own lives through them is
doomed to unhappy failure. They can be hurt by our
misunderstanding. They can be forced to secrecy by our
disapproval of their difference. . .They ask, simply, for
our recognition and our respect.
35
They Wear the Rose
"She who deserves the rose may wear it." Sweet
Briar's motto describes many alumnae and students and
perhaps all of them. But let's pick a few roses among the
current students and members of the class of 1978:
Margaret Laurent '78, a history major from Alex-
andria, VA, was one often undergraduates awarded a
Marshall Undergraduate Scholarship by the George C.
Marshall Research Foundation. Maggie, who spent part
of her junior year studying in Florence, Italy, used the
grant to spend winter term for research on the Marshall
Plan. Sponsored by the Amherst Rotary Club, Maggie
received the Rotary Foundation Education Award and
will spend nine months in Europe with all expenses paid
by the Rotary Foundation.
Deborah Snead '78 of Amherst presented a paper
before the Phi Beta Kappa Intercollegiate Forum for
the Commonwealth of Virginia in April. Her title was
"The Legislative Process in the Virginia General Assem-
bly: Formal and Informal Procedures." Deborah, a
government and sociology major, worked as a legislative
intern during several sessions of the Virginia General
Assembly. She was a Sweet Briar Scholar, editor of the
student handbook and member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Amy Smith '79 of Williamsburg. VA, has been a key
person in working for Sweet Briar's very own radio sta-
tion. With help from administration, students, alumnae
and Amherst radio station WK YY, SBC will have an
FM, non-commercial educational station, WSBC.
Susan Wright '78 of Madison Heights, VA, was a
speaker at the April meeting of the 32nd annual Eastern
Colleges Science Conference at Union College, Schnec-
tady, NY. Her paper, "Reproductive Biology of the
Water-Hemlock Cicuta maculata," was based on her
studies at Mountain Lake, VA.
The Anne Gary Pannell Prize in History. To encourage
high standards of scholarship in history, this award was
established in honor of the fifth president of the College
by Miss Dorothy Stimson, visiting professor of history,
1956. The fellowship is awarded annually to an out-
standing senior history major who plans graduate study.
Recipient: Eileen Paula Scully of New Rochelle, NY.
The Connie M. Guion Award. In honor of Dr. Guion,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilson Newman and their daughters
Clare Newman Blanchard '60 and Mildred Newman
Thayer '61 established this award to be given to a mem-
ber of the graduating class "for excellence as a human
being and as a member of the College." Recipient:
Catherine Green Taylor of Richmond, VA. Catherine
is the new alumnae representative to the Board of Over-
seers for a two-year term.
The Lawrence Nelson Award for Excellence in English.
Established in 1971 in memory of Professor Nelson,
the annual award is given to a senior chosen by the
Department of English, for general excellence in Eng-
lish. Recipient: Lenore Lee Cox of Lynchburg. Lenore
is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, was graduated magna
cum laude.
The Marcia Capron Award for Excellence in French.
Established by Mr. John D. Capron in honor of his wife,
this award is given to a senior for excellence in French.
Recipient: Leigh Sumner Ramsay of Fairfax, VA.
The Wall Street Journal Student Achievement Award
for Excellence in Economics. Recipient: Donna Kipp
of Moorestown, NJ.
The Emilie Watts McVea Scholar, class of 1978. Each
year the College recognizes academic achievement by
conferring upon the highest-ranking member of each
class the honorary title of Emilie Watts McVea, a desig-
nation which bears the name of the second president of
Sweet Briar. Recipient: Katherine Carrington Powell
of Halifax, VA. Katherine, a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, was graduated summa cum laude. This is the
second year that she has been the highest ranking mem-
ber of her class.
The Martha von Briesen Prize in Photography. Estab-
lished by the Alumnae Association in honor of Martha
von Briesen '31 and her many years of outstanding
service to the College as Director of Public Relations.
A prize of $25 is awarded to a graduating senior who
has made outstanding achievements in the field of
photography as a fine art. Recipient: Katherine Car-
rington Powell. She graduated with a dual degree in
studio art and biology.
The Penelope Czarra Award. Established by the parents
of Penelope Lane Czarra '75 to honor the senior who
best combines scholastic achievement, student leader-
ship and effective contributions to the improvement of
the quality of student life at Sweet Briar. Recipient:
Katherine Carrington Powell.
The Jean Besselievre Boley Award. Established by the
parents and husband of Jean B. Boley '35, to encourage
interest in creative writing. The fund provides the
prize of $100 to the student submitting the best short
story entered in the annual competition. It may also
provide a grant-in-aid for a junior or senior with
demonstrated ability in creative writing who requires
financial assistance and is recommended by the Dean. A
Recipient: Alice Trout Hagan '79 of Roanoke, VA. *
36
Estate^
Planning
News
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Increasingly Sweet Briar alumnae are entering into careers of independence
and originality in which conformity to the usual corporate pattern is less and less a
foregone conclusion. We have been on the look-out for some time for a group term
life insurance policy which could be made available to our alumnae, their husbands
and dependents. For individuals on their own in business or young couples not yet
far enough along to have a permanent insurance program sufficient to cover their
immediate obligations, term insurance is a boon to peace of mind. We have found in
NEAT (New England Alumni Trust) the program we've been looking for. It provides
term insurance individually tailored from $5,000 to $50,000 at rates comparing favor-
ably with any offered elsewhere. It is underwritten by one of the leading insurance
companies in the country and its participants include more than fifty leading colleges
and universities.
Shortly you will be receiving a mailing from NEAT. We suggest that you look
at it very carefully to see if it serves your needs. Compare it to similar coverages of-
fered through your job or independently. You may find that it provides yet another re-
inforcement in "doing your own thing" and keeps you from living as dangerously as
you would if you had no corporate group available. Many of us who have opened
shops or are teaching particular skills or doing other adventurous and creative things
have had to borrow money or at least use capital that might otherwise be earmarked
for children's education, support of aged parents, etc. Therefore it is essential for the
family finances that these risks be covered by insurance. When you have survived
your time of greatest risk, and your income is steady, then you can convert your Group
Term to Permanent insurance with several options as to how that can be handled,
both for your own benefit and for Sweet Briar. We will deal with that phase in suc-
ceeding messages.
For now, take a good long look at the material which will be mailed to you about
NEAT. Besides being low-cost group insurance from reliable sources and having the
back-up of other colleges already participating, there will be a small dividend com-
ing to Sweet Briar. This may never be a large amount, but it may serve to make pos-
sible some special project from time to time. As ready as we are to swallow up new
funds for new ideas, the thing that gives us joy is that NEAT provides yet another
service to you as an alumna that would not be as readily available to you if you had
not been blessed with a Sweet Briar education.
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Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, Va. 24595
Sweet Briar Alumnae Council
October 9-11, 1978
Tentative Schedule
Morning
12:00 noon
1:30 p.m.
2:30
4:00
7:00
8:30
Regional Committee; Nominating Committee; Alumnae
Representatives Committee; Finance Committee; Alumnae
Fund Committee; Estate Planning Committee
Lunch with students
Annual Meeting of the Alumnae Association
Administrative Panel: Harold B. Whiteman Jr., President;
Beatrice P. Patt, Dean; Elizabeth Bon d Wood, Vice President,
Office of Development and College Relations; Peter V. Daniel,
Vice-President and Treasurer
Party for alumnae and students who are alumnae relatives
Dinner
Student Panel
9:00 a.m.
10:30
12:00 noon
12:30
1:30 p.m.
2:30
3:00
4:30
5:30
7:00
8:30
10:00 a.m.
12:30 p.m.
1:30
Bulb Project Workshop
Alumnae Representatives Workshop
Service of Rememberance — Memorial Chapel
Lunch
Fund Agents' Workshop
Estate Planning Workshop
Club Presidents' Workshop
Publications Committee
Cocktails with the faculty
Dinner
Faculty Panel
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Executive Board Meeting
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"We shall not cease from our exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started from
And know the place for the first time."
— T.S. Eliot
Christmas Hope
It is said that mankind lives as we hope and hopes as we live, but the paradox
about hope is that in order to see it at its strongest, we must look where there seem
to be no grounds for hope at all. Christmas, coming just at the end of our year, is the
time above all for hoping and the renewal of hope. "The night is gone, the day is at
hand."
Edith and Harold Whiteman
Sweet Briar House
Christmas, 1978
Volume 49, Number 2; Winter 78-79
Editor: Catharine Fitzgerald Booker '47
Managing Editor: Ann Morrison Reams '42
Class Notes Editor: Carolyn Bates
Alumnae Magazine • Winter 1978-79
2 Calculus, Correlations and Carrie
Computer
by Judith M. Elkins
4 The Dream House Comes to Life
by Julia Sadler de Coligny '34
10 Adaptive Swimming
by Bonnie Jackson
12 A Visit to Alumnae Council
15 "Hello! Dolly!"
16 Letters to the Editor
16 Briar Patches
24 Profiles: She Began With a Box
Camera
34 SBC Alumnae Notices
36 Annual Fund Report
39 Alumnae in the News
40 Two Retirements:
Librarian of All Seasons
by Martha von Briesen '31 and
Catharine Fitzgerald Booker '47
Historian of All Arts
by Aileen H. Laing '57
42 Ambassadors-At-Large
by Dorothy Woods McLeod '58
44 The Compleat Cook
by Kathryn Barnes Hendricks '70
46 The Editor's Room: November 1918
Issued four times yearly; fall, winter, spring and summer by Sweet
Briar College. Second class postage paid at Sweet Briar, Virginia
24595. Telephone (804) 381-5513. Printed by J.P. Bell, Lynch-
burg, VA. Send form 3579 to Sweet Briar College, Box E, Sweet
Briar, VA 24595.
COVER: Many Alumnae Council members joined contemporary
students in a little nostalgic step-singing during a break in the Oc-
tober meetings. The class songs were new, of course, and in instances
were both appealing and encouraging. For example, the Class of '82
raised voice to sing: "We're the Freshman Class/And we'd like to
say /That we love it here/ And we plan to stay ..." Photograph by
David Abrams; for others of Council scenes, turn to page 12.
Calculus, Correlations and Carrie Computer
by Judith M. Elkins
Has the mathematics department changed since
Mary Ann Lee was here? At first, visiting alum-
nae may find it difficult to get an answer because the
department is no longer on the third floor of Fletcher.
We have moved to the Connie M. Guion Science Build-
ing, with offices on the top floor, the mathematics li-
brary collection in the Guion Science Library and the
computer terminal room in the basement. Some of our
majors wear tee-shirts which proclaim to the rest of
the College, 'TD RATHER BE IN GUION!"
Now that we have been found by the Alumnae Maga-
zine, other changes are easily discovered. A survey of
Courses of Instruction from 1960 to 1979 reveals an
increase in the computer science and statistics courses
and the importance of the computer in mathematics in-
struction. The phrases, "computer simulation programs
illustrating the theoretical concepts" and "Prerequisite:
. . .FORTRAN programming," in our current course
listings, capture the flavor of these changes. The FOR-
TRAN course is now required for math majors and both
FORTRAN and BASIC programming remain popular
electives for non-majors. Miss Lee's IN and OUT baskets
may have disappeared but shelves are piled high with
printouts and students still line up outside the office
doors when bugs invade their programs. There is little
doubt Miss Lee would feel completely at home.
The early seventies was a period of high turnover
for the mathematics faculty. Assistant Professor
John Daughtry is now our "old hand," having come
to the College in 1973 as a new Ph.D. from the University
of Virginia. Sandra Herring Goldberg '74 returned as
Instructor last year after completing her M.A. at the
University and has now moved to Raleigh-Durham to do
graduate work in computer science. The new Assistant
Professor in the department is Brian Shelburne, who
just finished his doctorate at Duke University and has
been on campus since the beginning of summer. Balanc-
ing all this youth and enthusiasm is the really old hand,
me.
Enrollment in mathematics is increasing. More than
half the students now take at least one math course be-
fore graduation and the new distribution requirements
(as described in the Winter, 1977-78, issue) will cause
a further increase. Many students recognize that mathe-
matics and computer literacy are required for the pro-
grams and careers of their choice. Students in the math
department now are very likely to be joint majors with
economics, physics, psychology or chemistry. Fewer are
interested in teaching or graduate study in theoretical
mathematics than in the past, while most enjoy working
with computers and find positions in the computer
industry.
Academic use of the computer has really expanded on
Sweet Briar campus. Computer-based instruction is
used by the social sciences, particularly for statistical
analysis of data. Psychology students use programs de-
veloped by Dr. Phyllis Stevens to do their homework for
the psych statistics course while biology students simu-
late the behavior of cell membranes and the frequency
of genetic defects by means of computer models. Within
the physical sciences we see the students running com-
puter simulations of laboratory experiments, studying
relations between force and motion and determining
energy levels. Students in environmental studies will be
modelling pollution problems and trends in the popula-
tion growth.
But the mathematics department remains the heav-
iest user. In addition to the programming courses
elected by 50 students each year, the courses in numer-
ical analysis and linear programming concentrate on
problems which have computer-implemented solutions.
Last year the Anonymous Science Fund enabled us to
purchase an X-Y plotter which produces two- and three-
dimensional graphs. The instructions for this device re-
side in the memory of the computer. Plotter graphs assist
in the study of sequence convergence, analytical geom-
etry and functions of several variables.
A current generation computer, purchased this year
by the three-college consortium (The others are Lynch-
burg College and Randolph-Macon Woman's College),
is now running at the Tri-College Computer Center in
Lynchburg. Increased computer use on all three cam-
puses had exceeded the disc storage capacity of the old
Honeywell and NCR computers and their limited cap-
abilities severely hindered our use of the software systems
Judie Elkins is Associate Professor and Chairman of (he Mathematics
Department, having arrived at Sweet Briar in 197S after teaching at
Mount Holyoke; California State University, San Diego; Rutgers,
the State University of New Jersey; and Ohio State University. She
earned a B.A. from Wellesley, an M.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from
the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her husband Bryce commutes
weekly between Sweet Briar and Falls Church, where he is Manager
of Special Programs in (he Systems Division of Computer Science
Corporation. They have seven-year-old twins of mixed gender and an-
other daughter, age ten.
David Abrams
High spirits and hard work were the two outstanding characteristics
of the team of six students and two faculty members who worked
with the new DECsystem 2040 computer last summer. Gathered
around a CRT terminal in a Fall Term reunion photograph are (top
row, from left) Gay Goracci '79; Lisa Ward '80, daughter of Sloan
Hawkins Ward '44; Susan Andrews '79, sister of Elisabeth An-
drews Watts '74; (middle row, on left) Fran McClung '80, daughter
of Margaret Graves McClung 'S3 and granddaughter of the late
Margaret Burwell Graves '23; Swee Wong '81; (bottom, from left)
Brian Shelburne and the author. The CRT screen is saying, "WE
ARE THE COMPUTER BUMS OF SWEET BRIAR. FOR MORE
INFORMATION ON COMPUTER BUMS AND COMPUTERS,
LOOK INSIDE."
developed elsewhere. Hence our new DEC system 2040
has been eagerly awaited for years. It can process the
concurrent requests of 32 users and its expanded disc
storage will accommodate student, faculty and adminis-
trative programs. The message transmission speed has
already tripled and can be increased even more, a bene-
fit which is especially important for effective use of
computer-assisted instruction. The more sophisticated
language and system capabilities of this modern com-
puter compare well with the best available at other
institutions.
The improvements to the computer facilities on the
Sweet Briar campus will please its users. The teletype
terminals which have clunked slowly and loudly for years
have been banished; in their place are fast, quiet DEC-
writer teminals. Extensive remodeling has converted
room 06 in the basement of Guion into a modern termi-
nal room equipped with the DECwriters, a "smart" video
teminal and the X-Y plotter. Additional DECwriters
are in Benedict to accommodate the social sciences.
Conversion to any new computer system is always
a problem. Fortunately the Alfred Sloan Founda-
tion agreed with that contention and funded my proposal
for an eight-week summer project. Six students with
strong backgrounds in mathematics and computer pro-
gramming worked with Dr. Shelburne and me, convert-
ing programs used by the departments of biology, eco-
nomics, government, mathematics, physics, psychology
and sociology. The self-styled "Computer Bums" were
math-econ majors Susan Andrews "79, Fran McClung
'80 and Swee Wong '81; math-physics majors
Lisa Ward '80 and Susan Richeson '81; and math-
biochem major Gay Goracci '79. We all learned the new
operating system and programming languages for the
DEC system 2040, now known familiarly as Carrie
Computer. Carrie was the center of our attention during
the two summer months and she starred in our video
tapes which will introduce the new system to the rest
of the College. If the video tapes are not enough, the
six Computer Bums, "Boss" (Brian Shelburne) and
"Head Counselor" (me) are the campus consultants
for the rest of the community which met Carrie Com-
puter in September.
We recognize the need for more exposure to computers
in our curriculum. Dr. Shelburne is preparing a second
level course in computer organization and programming
applications. Dr. Daughtry will incorporate MINITAB,
an educational statistics package available on our com-
puter system, in both the social science statistics course
and the mathematical statistics course. His work this
summer was part of the extensive faculty activity sup-
ported by a large National Science Foundation grant
received by the College and directed by Dr. Stevens.
But that is another story.
In summary: The mathematics program at Sweet
Briar is moving ahead rapidly in directions clearly seen
as necessary by Miss Lee many years ago. We are all of
us delighted to be a part of it.
I
The Dream House Comes To Life
by Julia Sad/er de Coligny '34
Assistant Director, VCCA
When the Winter '77 Alumnae Magazine described
"Aunt Lilybell's Dream House," the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts had had two successful sum-
mers on the Sweet Briar campus, and the hope was that a
permanent year-round home for the VCCA would be
provided at Mt. San Angelo. The Dream House has
become a reality and this is to tell you the exciting story
of what is happening over there. In November, 1977,
the Boards of Directors of the VCCA and Sweet Briar
signed a twenty-five year lease whereby the College would
provide water and the septic system, 75 percent of the
cost of renovations to the exterior of the mansion, and 50
percent of the cost of a new roof on the barn. The Vir-
ginia Center for the Creative Arts would be responsible
for all interior renovations of both the mansion and the
barn and maintenance of both facilities and surrounding
grounds. The VCAA would be responsible for its own
financial support.
The Board of Directors of the Virginia Center for the
Creative Arts has twenty-seven members. Originally they
were all from Charlottesville and environs because that
was where it all began. It was modeled on the MacDowell
Colony of Peterborough, N.H., where several of the
founders had been residents. Now that the VCCA has
made new beginnings and attracts artists from all over
the United States and foreign countries, it is appropriate
that membership on the Board include prominent
patrons of the arts from New York, Florida, Richmond,
Lynchburg and Roanoke as well as Charlottesville. Mrs.
James L. Camp, III, from Charlottesville, is the Presi-
dent. She has no direct Sweet Briar connection but is
extremely enthusiastic and supportive of the idea. There
are two Sweet Briar alumnae on the Board: Julia Gray
Saunders Michaux '29, of Richmond; and Nancy Bean
Hector '43, of Coconut Grove, FL; one alumna husband,
Milton Glaser (married to Nancy Goldbarth '42), of
Richmond; one student grandfather, Robert F. Wil-
liams (grandfather of Sarah Martin '81), of Richmond;
and one Sweet Briar Board member's wife, Mrs. John
Rogan. In time, we hope there will be many more Sweet
Briar alumnae and their families who will want to be-
come involved.
BUI Lane (or I he Richmond Times • DKpalt h
VCCA Director William Smart (above, left) and writer Ronald Bean demonstrate the
maxim that creative work is done best when one elevates the feet to improve circula-
tion to the brain. While in residence at Mount San Angelo Bean worked on a commis-
sioned book about sniper terrorism in the United States. He is an instructor in English at
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. The drawing on the opposite page by
VCCA Fellow Drudie Davis shows how the old mansion will look after current refur-
bishment is completed.
The work of preparing bedrooms and studios was
begun immediately in October, 1977, and the Di-
rector, William Smart, who is also Associate Professor of
English at Sweet Briar, announced that the Center would
open on January 1, 1978. In spite of delays caused most-
ly by weather, that schedule was adhered to, and the
Center has operated at full capacity ever since. At first
that capacity was only six artists and writers; then nine
and now twelve. There is a private bedroom and studio
for each artist. The reception rooms are comfortably
furnished with pieces ranging in quality from Early
Attic to genuine antique. The dining room has a sturdy
and handsome refectory table ($10 from government
surplus!)large enough for all the artists to dine to-
gether for their evening meal on china bought from Meta
Glass dining room when they replaced theirs. The large
kitchen and pantry are equipped with a creditable supply
of appliances gleaned from gifts of friends, auctions
and the government surplus warehouse. The springs
and mattresses are a gift from the Stephens (Elynor
Neblett '57 and Sophomore Elynor) at Tide's Inn. The
Carrington Williams (Emory Gill '40) gave their parlor
grand when they started a new career in Whitestone.
Nancy Day McCammond '50 gave us an oversized an-
tique server which looks perfect in the dining room.
Seymour Langhon Rennolds '51 gave an Italian bench.
Nancy Goldbarth Glaser '42, whose husband serves on
the VCCA Board, collected useful pieces from her own
and others' homes in Richmond, including cast-off
draperies from a friend's newly decorated business
offices.
Out at the barn the water finally began to flow after
a long slow wait with ditches and disconnected pipes.
That provided the necessary plumbing to accommodate
the large high-ceilinged studios for painters and the
sound-proofed studios for writers. The composer's
studio is in the little house at the left end of the barn
separated from the main building by a breezeway. His
or her sleeping quarters are in the same area; above
a painter's studio where the grooms used to stay, there
is a small but charming apartment for Steve Humphrey,
Public Relations Coordinator, and his wife, who works
This painting studio
over the stable is a
suitably austere work
environment for VCCA
Fellow Christine Griffin,
a free-lance artist from
New York City. Like all
the Fellows, Griffin had
a bedroom in the main
house.
for Lynchburg College. Jane Tamburr, wife of Carl
Tamburr of the Sweet Briar English Department fac-
ulty, has been serving as Bill Smart's Administrative
Assistant since the beginning. Their cook for the first
six months was Charles Efird, who has been a full-
time student at Sweet Briar for a season on his way to
graduation from Hampden-Sydney and a Master's
degree in Early Childhood Education at Lynchburg
College. Charles, a dedicated vegetarian, did all he could
to educate the artists toward a more nutritious diet for
the six months he waited for a teaching position. When
he departed, an ad for his replacement was miraculously
answered by Mary Christian, who cooked for the Barrows
for twenty years when they owned Mt. San Angelo. She
is happy to be back, and they are happy to have her.
CETA workers have painted the walls and pruned
and cleaned and raked and beautified the long-neglected
grounds until Mt. San Angelo does indeed look like
Aunt Lilybell's Dream House come to life. There was
a cocktail party to show off the interior last August and
have the artists meet some of the friends of the VCCA,
and it was an occasion to be proud of.
Now who, you will ask, has been enjoying these fab-
ulous facilities? There would have to be a special
edition of the magazine to do justice to the Fellows who
The walk between the
stable and the main
house is good exercise
for Fellow Kelly Cherry,
a poet and novelist who
used her tenure at
Mount San Angelo to
produce some 800
pages of manuscript for
two new novels.
Composer George
Costinesco is normally
a resident of New York
City where the Depart-
ment of Parks and
Recreation recently
used one of his pieces in
a music program for
the public. His wife was
also a Fellow.
have already been or are coming. Their applications are
screened and their credentials examined by profes-
sionals, some of whom are from the Sweet Briar art
and music faculties, the Chairman of the Art Depart-
ment at Virginia Commonwealth University, and writers
from the English faculty of the University of Virginia.
They are accepted on the basis not only of past achieve-
ment but also predicted accomplishment. They pay up to
$70 per week for room, board and studio space, but
abatements are granted when worthy applicants are
unable to pay the full amount.
Although it is not part of their commitment, many
have proven their willingness to share their works in
progress with students and faculty. Jacques Hnizdovsky,
Poet Peter Klapper (at
the head of the refectory
table) and author Wil-
liam Craig share the
solitude of the informal
brunch that constitutes
the early Sunday meal
in the dining room of
the main house at Mi.
San Angelo.
a world -renowned graphics artist from the Ukraine and
now living in Riverdale, N.Y., showed his own film on
"The Making of a Woodcut;" Jean Gould, author of
Robert Frost: The Aim Was Song, and 13 other books,
shared with a Sweet Briar audience some of her experi-
ences in collecting material for her current book.
Modern American Women Poets. William Craig, author
of The Fall of Japan, The Tashkent Crisis, Enemy at
the Gates, and The Strasbourg Legacy, spoke at Sweet
Briar on his preoccupation with man's power to endure
the unendurable. He is working to meet G.P. Putnam's
deadline for his mammoth work on the history of
Auschwitz. Peter Klappert. the recipient of the Yale
Younger Poets' Prize in 1970. has been a lecturer at
BUI Lane for the Richmond Times- Dispatch
For both Kelly Cherry (above) and Martha Collins (right) the typewriter and the ability
to use it form a basic tool of their art. While she was a VCCA Fellow, Collins produc-
ed a book of poetry; after her Mount San Angelo residence she returned to the
University of Massachusetts, Boston, where she is Associate Professor of English.
Sweet Briar earlier and was a Fellow at the VCCA for
two sessions in 1978. Having been writer-in-residence
and Assistant Professor at William & Mary for two
years, he is now Assistant Professor of English at George
Mason University.
Victor Perrera was among the first to come to Mt.
San Angelo in the midst of winter weather. He came in
the dual role of VCCA Fellow and Nida Tomlin Watts
Lecturer in Creative Writing. He was working on a book
on the Lacondon Mayas, having previously published
The Loch Ness Monster Watchers and numerous articles
in The Nation, Antioch Review and others. He lectured
on campus, read from his work in progress and spent
informal time in writing classes with students.
Not all of the Fellows have been here while students
were on campus. For the third summer the VCCA Fel-
lows were invited to participate in the program of the
Governor's School for the Gifted at Randolph-Macon,
and they did so with great enjoyment. Of unusual interest
was Kelly Cherry, who was born in Richmond, the
daughter of Milton Cherry and his wife, both prominent
in the field of chamber music. Kelly was graduated from
Mary Washington College and did her graduate work at
the U. of Va. She is currently writer-in-residence at
the University of Wisconsin and includes among her
publications: Sick and Full of Burning (1974; Lovers
and Agnostics (poetry. 1975); Relativity: A Point of View
(poetry, 1977); Conversion, A Chapbook of Fiction
(1978); and her forthcoming novel, Augusta Played.
A resident painter from far away was Mil Lubroth,
who has been Chairman of the Department of Art and
Humanities at the American Government School in
Madrid since 1958. Her paintings hang in the Smith-
sonian, The Kennedy Center, The White House,
UNICEF: UNESCO, and other collections in the U.S.
and abroad.
Arthur Anderson, who taught with Dr. Richard Row-
land at Rollins and with Mr. Smart at Skidmore, is
now Chairman of the Department of Fine and Perform-
ing Arts at York College (CUNY). He received his BFA
at Yale and has had exhibitions at Middlebury, Skid-
more. Cornell, Yale and many others. He was in resi-
dence at Mt. San Angelo most of the summer.
We have had two Sweet Briar alumnae as Fellows:
Elizabeth Meade Howard '60, a journalist living in
Charlottesville, who received the Va. Press Assn. Award
in '72, and Jan Haagensen '68, who completed the re-
quirements for her Ph.D. at U. Conn, while she was a
Fellow in summer of '76. Her latest publication is Like
a Diamond Back in the Trunk of a Witness' Buick.
Two teams of husband composer and wife painter were
Gheorghe and Silvelin Costinesco and David and
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John Earle (left), nature photographer, has taught at Sweet Briar and was also a
VCCA Fellow. His work has appeared in The National Geographic and he is the
author of John Muir's Longest Walk. Sculptor Catherine Widgery (above) learned to
weld while making The Embrace: she has also produced some handsome work in
wood. Originally a Fellow, she is now at Mount San Angelo as a VCCA staff member.
Barbara Hollister. The Hollisters had to leave early
for him to accept a teaching post at Hofstra University.
Other composers who have been Fellows so far have
been Kathleen St. John whose Fleur de Lys had its world
premier on campus during the Festival of the Arts in
April 1977; Robert Fleisher from the University of
Illinois; Gerald Levinson, Professor of Music at Swarth-
more, who came to work on chamber music honoring
Messiaen, commissioned by the Festivale Internationale
de Musique, Besancon, France; and John Diercks,
well-known in this area as Professor and Chairman of
the Department of Music at Hollins College and music
critic of the Roanoke Times.
The support for the VCCA, in addition to private
contributions, has come from grants The National
Endowment for the Arts, the Va. Commission for the
Arts and Humanities, and such private foundations as
the J.L. Camp Foundation, the George and Effie Seay
Foundation, the Bay Foundation, the Bedminster Fund,
and the Seth Sprague Foundation. In order to assure
the stability of the operation of Mt. San Angelo as the
permanent home of the VCCA, there must be a cam-
paign for funds to build an endowment. It is the hope of
the VCCA that Sweet Briar alumnae, realizing the great
potential of value to the entire college family to have a
successful and respected artists' colony operating on its
property, will want to have a part in the action. The next
dream may be a program of continuing education where-
by alumnae and friends may come for periods of resi-
dence on campus in the summer to renew their skills in
the creative arts under pre-arranged tutelage of the
resident professionals at Mt. San Angleo.
Meanwhile, the signs are very promising. One of the
goals of this year's President of Student Government,
Mary Harris '79, is to make students more aware of the
VCCA. The SGA will sponsor monthly afternoon ses-
sions with the Fellows in residence. Diane Moran,
Instructor in Art History, is already planning to hang
an exhibit of works by VCCA resident painters for the
students. A great future awaits this unique combination
of liberal arts college and artists' colony, the only one of
its kind. We already have something to tell the world
about, even though there's still a long way to go. There
is a new brochure available, which will be sent you upon
request. Write to:
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Box VCCA
Sweet Briar, Virginia 24595
Adaptive Swimming
by
B onnie Jackson
Kilhlecn K.v.n.gh '74
Swimming, splashing, floating — the sheer exuber-
ance of water play — are new experiences for a
group of handicapped school children who took swim-
ming lessons in the Elizabeth and Charles Prothro Nata-
torium at Sweet Briar.
Beginning last April and continuing through May,
nearly 40 Amherst school children participated in Sweet
Briar's adaptive aquatics classes as part of the Lynch-
burg YWCA program of physical development for the
handicapped. In order to teach the classes, Sweet Briar
student-volunteers were trained by members of the Y
staff.
The children, ranging in age from six to 21, are handi-
capped as a result of a variety of ailments, including
cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida, Down's
syndrome, various types of degrees of brain damage and
other disabilities.
For the past six years, Mrs. Pat Luth, director of
physical development for the handicapped at the YWCA,
has sponsored such programs in swimming-skill develop-
ment for these Lynchburg and Amherst children. Am-
herst children had previously been transported to pools
in Lynchburg but the program grew until it could no
longer accommodate groups from beyond the city limits.
With the opening of the new swimming facility at Sweet
Briar, Amherst children once again are able to enjoy
the benefits of the YWCA program.
The class sessions are of 45 minutes' duration. Each
class begins with a water game, usually "Hokey Pokey."
This helps to relax the children and get them used to the
water. Student instructors then work with them on a one-
to-one basis, helping them become familiar with basic
swimming skills. The children begin with simple tasks
like "being comfortable in water of shoulder depth,"
"walking in the water," and "blowing bubbles."
Later they progress to more advanced techniques, such
as the crawl stroke and jumping and diving into deep
water, which in the Prothro pool is more than 13 feet.
Each session closes with "show-off time," when each
child demonstrates before the group a favorite skill of
that day. The enthusiastic applause and individual
recognition given each of the children leaves them with
positive feelings about themselves and their achieve-
ments as they return to school, eagerly looking forward
to their next swim session.
Bonnie Jackson, Director of Aquatics and coach of the Sweet Briar
swim team, led her new varsity squad to the Virginia Small College
championship this year. She earned a B.A. in philosophy in 1974 and
this year received her master's degree from the Divinity School; both
degrees are from Yale University.
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Kathleen Ka«anagh '74
What kinds of benefits do these children derive
from adaptive swimming therapy? "We work
mostly in the water to encourage muscle movement and
perceptual motor development, emphasizing therapy on
the part of the child's body that may be most afflicted,"
Mrs. Luth explained.
For example, 16-year old Henry (not his real name),
who is extremely overweight, has little mobility on land.
The joy expressed in his beaming face when he was able
to float, move his arms and flutter-kick with the patient
encouragment of his student instructor was a gratifying
sight. The buoying effect of the water enables children
to do things they could never manage on land. For the
more severely handicapped, those for whom the coordin-
ation required for swimming is beyond reasonable ex-
pectation, the classes serve to improve muscle tone and
circulation and provide a social experience unavailable
to them elsewhere. Some are also given the opportunity
to learn to dress and undress themselves. Perhaps the
greatest benefit derived from the program is the close
personal association with a special person who cares
enough to devote an hour of her time every week to the
program.
The handicapped children are by no means the
only ones to benefit from these classes. Working
with these special children was a tremendous learning
experience for the Sweet Briar students as well as for
Miss Macdonald (chairman of the department of physi-
cal education) and for me. Working with a child whose
attention span may last for less than 15 seconds can be
frustrating. It is not easy to communicate with many
of the afflicted children; patience, ingenuity and creativ-
ity are constantly demanded.
The rewards are commensurate with the invested
effort. We left the sessions with a sense of having done
something truly worthwhile, and many of us gained
a new appreciation for skills and capabilities which we
so often take for granted. All who worked on the pro-
gram were enthusiastic about it; for some it has even
opened doors to future career possibilities.
To provide such a beneficial service in our local county
can have only a positive effect on community relations.
Mrs. Luth considers the Sweet Briar pool a great asset
to the YWCA program because of its location in Am-
herst County and because the pool's size allows for
larger class sessions. The Y staff has expressed its ap-
preciation for our support of their program and wants
to return next year to offer a session in the fall as well
as in the spring.
We at Sweet Briar are delighted to have the oppor-
tunity to help in such a cause and look forward to hosting
the program again. To all of you who so generously sup-
ported the pool construction program we owe the biggest
thanks of all. for without your help none of this program A
for handicapped children would have been possible. »
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A Visit to Alumnae Council
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A brush-up in Latin grammar
greeted the returning Alumnae
Council October 8-11. The
poster is held by Alumnae
Association President Judy
Sorley Chalmers '59 (left) and
Dean of the College Beatrice
Patt. This and other photos of
the meeting are the work of
David Abrams.
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Tabb Thornton Farinholt '59
takes minutes as Judy
Chalmers presides over the
opening session of Alumnae
Council. This was followed by
a panel discussion in which
Harold B. Whiteman, Jr.,
President; Beatrice Patt, Dean;
Elizabeth Bond Wood '34,
Vice President for Develop-
ment and College Relations;
and Peter V. Daniel, Vice
President and Treasurer, par-
ticipated.
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As interesting as the meetings were, it didn't hurt to have a little something to do with
the hands, as shown above (clockwise, from upper left) b\ Julia Gray Saunders
Michaux '39, member of the Alumnae Association Executive Board; Virginia Noyes
Pillsbury '44, Class Secretary and a member of the Golden Stairs Committee; Mary K.
Lee McDonald '65, Chairman of the Finance Committee; and Jean Gillespie Walker
'54, Chairman of the Golden Stairs Committee.
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In front of the Senior Steps,
Jane Merkle Borden '65 chats
with Debbie Haslam Peniston
'66 and a current student. The
weather was lovely during
Council, inviting many alum-
nae get outside and enjoy the
beautiful fall colors that
painted the campus landscape.
Libby Trueheart Harris '49,
Chairman of Alumnae
Representatives Committee,
was unable to be present so
her report was read by Martha
Mansfield Clement '48, Direc-
tor of Research for the College
development office. Among the
listeners are (l-r)Julie Sadler de
Coligny, '34, Director of Estate
Planning; Jane Henderson '17;
Linda Frazier Keith '75; and
Norma Ellen Harrison '75.
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"Hello! Dolly!"
• • %^/ ell, hello. Dolly! It's so nice to have you
™ " back where you belong," said President
Whiteman at the 1978 reunion luncheon in May. "It
is with pride and pleasure that I present the Sweet Briar
College Annual Alumnae Award to Dorothy Nicholson
Tate, class of 1938, of Davidson, North Carolina. In
truth, she has belonged to this College for forty years
and we salute her with affection and admiration."
The Award is usually made at Founders' Day in
October. However, realizing that Dolly would come to
her 40th reunion, the Award Committee, Association
Director Ann Reams and President Whiteman decided
to honor Dolly while her own class was on campus.
"No wonder Jack wanted to come to my reunion!"
exclaimed Dolly later on. "I was the most surprised per-
son in the world at my 40th."
Noting that Dolly Tate was president of her senior
class, a member of Tau Phi and a charter member of
QV, we asked, "Now why not tell us what QV means?"
"I can't; that's a secret. But I will tell you that we
started QV as a means of keeping up students' spirits
and getting them over the sophomore slump and then
keeping them here."
Since 1938 Dolly has served Sweet Briar as a mem-
ber of the Board of Overseers (1968-1974), as class
secretary, class fund agent, club president and bulb
chairman, chairman of Region IV and chairman of the
Alumnae Association's nominating committee. "Her
own community," Mr. Whiteman said, "knows her as
a leader in its civic, cultural, educational and religious
affairs because — like many Sweet Briar graduates — she
has the talent for bringing to community service the
dignity of work at the highest level. Her husband Jack,
a banker, is a member of the Board of Visitors at his
alma mater, Davidson. Her son had the good taste to
choose a Sweet Briar graduate for a wife (Claire Kinnett
Tate '71). Her daughter Caroline Tate Noojin '64 was
singled out as one of four distinguished Young Women
of Alabama by the state Jaycees in 1976, the same year
Gaire Tate was named one of Ten Outstanding Young
People of Atlanta. Also important to Dolly and Jack,
besides their family of course, are their commitments
to their church, the Democratic party and, last but
not least, their eight Cavalier King Charles spaniels. . ."
The Annual Alumnae Award was established in 1968
for the purpose of recognizing Sweet Briar graduates
for their outstanding service to the College in a volun-
Dolh Tate, surrounded bj her handsome family (clockwise from up-
per left): son John and his wife, Claire Kinnett Tate '71; son-in-law
Frank K. Noojin, Jr.; grandsons Frank and Tate; daughter Caroline
Tate Noojin '64; and husband John A. Tate, Jr.
teer capacity. The Award was named in honor of the
first graduating class, the class of 1910. "Sixty-eight
years after she received her degree from this brand new
college in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, one member of
the class of 1910 is with us today at this 1978 reunion
luncheon," said President Whiteman, "and she is the
redoubtable Frances Murrell Rickards of Norfolk,
Virginia."
Past recipients of the Award are: the class of 1910.
Flo Freeman Fowler '19, (deceased) Edith Durrell
Marshall '21, Helen McMahon '23, EdnaLee Gilchrist
'26, Elizabeth Prescott Balch '28. Mary Huntington
Harrison '30, Gladys Wester Horton '30, Martha von
Briesen '31, Phoebe Rowe Peters '31, Juliet Halliburton
Burnett '35, Jacquelyn Strickland Dwelle '35, and in
1978, Dorothy Nicholson Tate '38. ^ „_,.
— The Editor
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About the Magazine
To the Editor:
Such a good edition of the Alumnae Maga-
zine. . .1 have passed it on to friends. . .
Juliet Halliburton Burnett '35
Greensboro. NC
Many, many thanks for the fine article on
music by Blair Graves Smith in the Alumnae
Magazine. We. in the Department, appreciate
the kindness you extended to our field. We are
grateful . . . and uplifted.
Jane Perry Camp
Sweet Briar. VA
Pardon the (Christmas!) postcard but I am
obeying my impulse to say how much I en-
joyed the Summer issue of the Alumnae
Magazine — it was really a tremendous issue:
interesting material, written well and I know
how much hard work it must have taken!
Congratulations.
Sally Melcher Jarvis '49
Lancaster, PA 17603
A note to congratulate you on the beauti-
ful appearance of the summer Sweet Briar
Alumnae Magazine. Your designer has really
enhanced the issue and made it real pleasure
to read.
The content is very interesting, as always,
and the pictures, especially Discovery Bay.
beautiful.
Thanks for this enjoyable issue!
Mary Jane Ertman '51
Assistant Editor
Wellesley Alumnae Magazine
. . .The magazine is always a credit to its
staff and to Sweet Briar.
Liz Copeland Norfleet '30
Charlottesville, VA
I have just finished reading the Sweet
Briar College Alumnae Magazine. Summer
1978. and wanted to tell you how very im-
pressed 1 am with this issue. I will be circulat-
ing it to many of our staff and Executive
Board members. . . .
Jane A. Drury
Director of Alumnae Affairs
Wheaton College
Update
To the Editor:
I thought you might be interested to know
that Elaine Louise Mills '74, head of the
Smithsonian project to research and organize
the collection of Dr. John Harrington, was
featured in a newspaper article in the Wash-
inton Star. Aug. 20, 1978. Elaine graduated
summa cum laude with highest honors in
both French and anthropology and has been
employed in the anthropology dept. of the
Museum of Natural History. Washington,
DC, for the past four years.
Mrs. James L. Mills, Jr.
Falls Church, VA
See Anybody You Know?
To the Editor:
The enclosed pictures showed some familiar
faces, and upon digging into old yearbooks
and into my memory I was able to identify a
few people. I'm sure others can fill in the rest
. . .1 hope this is of some help.
Virginia Ramsey Crawford '59
Lordy! Is there nobody left who was there in
the mid-fifties? Three out of the four pictures
for which you sought help were probably
taken in the school year 1955-56. . .best
wishes to you all.
Caroline Sauls Shaw '58
Atlanta, GA
The picture at the top left of page 10 is of a
group of the freshman class of 1959. . .
Judy Welton Sargent '59
Westport.CT 06880
Sure, I remember that was us. I can't re-
member what the party was, but we were
freshmen in Grammer. . .My family sure
laughed at this picture. Keep 'em coming.
My toga's made from our bright red curtains.
Penny Fisher Crowell '59
Westcliffe. CO 81252
I immediately recognized my fellow class-
mates. . .With some digging. I discovered
that it was taken during our freshman year,
although I don't know on what occasion. . .
It was fun browsing through my yearbooks.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Connie Fitzgerald Lange '59
Schenectady, NY 12309
There was better-than-usual agreement on
the identifications of the celebrants at the
1955 toga party pictured at the upper left of
page ten of the fall issue: indeed, there was
a consensus on the identities of three ITrish
Chandler, Penny Fisher and Ann Young)
and near-consensus on those of three more
(Cecile Martin. Ann Eagles and Susan Glass)
but as to the two others (possibly Judy
Nevins, Lucy Frost or Jackie Heckma) there
was less certainty. The studious quintet in
the library picture were almost surely Margie
Shannon. Virginia Marchant, Peggy Arduser
and Camilla Mueller — to name foui — but
the fifth may have been Ann Plumb. Ann
Pegram or Cornelia Fitzgerald. The smiling
blonde standing amidst so many college pen-
nants was Diane Chase: of this there is no
doubt. But none of our correspondents at-
tempted identifications of the prom-goers on
the lower right. This may be another expres-
sion of our See Anybody You Know? prin-
ciple, that the more people there are in the
picture the greater is the disagreement. In
the prom shot there were so many that all
the fuses blew before the letters were even
written. — Editor.
Flowers for the Chapel
To the Editor:
Throughout our Judeo-Christian history,
flowers and growing things have played an
important part in our lives. Pomegranates and
lillies were fashioned over and over again to
decorate the temples; first fruits of the har-
vest were considered holy and were sacrificed
on the altar to God. Lillies were so common
and abundant that they were known merely
as "lilies of the valley". Also familiar to us is
the "rose of Sharon" which ran in colorful
profusion along the Plain of Sharon on the
Mediterranean. Today, flowers on the altar
symbolize this tradition and represent that
which is a vital and valid part of God's crea-
tion; indeed, that part of His creation with
which He is probably the least displeased.
Scripture uses flowers as an example to
teach us a lesson — of beauty, hope, comfort,
rebirth. Our life in microcosm, brief, fleeting
but still valuable and cherished, is like a
flower. Listen to David: "As for man, his days
are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the
field; for the wind passes over it, and it is
gone. . .but the steadfast love of the Lord is
from everlasting to everlasting. . .to those who
keep his covenant."
Isaiah predicts the restoration of Zion:
"The wilderness. . .shall be glad, the desert
shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus it
shall blossom abundantly."
Matthew says to us all: "Consider the lilies
of the field, how they grow, they neither toil
nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed like one of these."
All gifts that we bring to the altar are gifts
God has given us originally; and so, in this
light, are the altar flowers. They are a part of
the offering we wish to return to God.
Those who wish to make an offering of
flowers for the altar, or who wish to do so as
a memorial to someone, may do so by sending
a note with a check enclosed to P.O. Drawer
H. Sweet Briar. VA 24595. Please indicate
the person you wish to honor and name the
specific Sunday by date.
Sallie Carter
Chaplain
The following published statement
is required by the U. S. Postal Service
and is presented herewith in fulfill-
ment of that requirement: Editor:
Catharine Fitzgerald Booker; Man-
aging Editor: Ann Morrison Reams;
Publisher and Owner: The Alumnae
Association of Sweet Briar College.
a non-profit, educational corporation.
There are no stockholders, bond-
holders, mortgages or other security
holders. Distribution of an average
of 10.108 copies by U. S. Postal Service
is free to readers, paid for by the
Sweet Briar Alumnae Association.
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days later they headed south to visit rela-
tives and friends and relax at Rivera Beach,
FL, returning leisurely by way of Savannah
and Charleston, SC.
You will be saddened to learn of the death
of Trot Walker Neidlinger's husband Pudge,
which occurred April 22. They have been
living for the past several years in the home
they built at Chatham, MA, near Cape Cod.
1926
1910
Frances Murrell Rickards was honored on
her 90th birthday with a beautiful reception
given by her daughter Murrell Rickards
Patrick '44. Among the Sweet Briar guests
were Elizabeth Bond Wood '34, a vice presi-
dent of the College; Dorothy Jester, assistant
dean; and Dr. Anne Gary Taylor, president,
emeritus. Mrs. Rickards also returned to the
campus for the Reunion activities in May.
Friends everywhere were sorry to learn
of the death of Bishop George Taylor, hus-
band of honorary class member, Anne Gary
Taylor. Dr. Taylor is currently serving as
chairman of the Friends of the Sweet Briar
College Library, on the Consumer advisory
Board of the Federal Reserve System and
as a trustee of Chatham Hall and Foxcroft
School.
1918
Secretary
Cilia Guggenheimer Nusbaum (Mrs. Bert-
ram), 601 Pembroke Ave., Norfolk, VA 23507
Fund Agent
Margaret McVey, 1600 Westbrook Ave.,
Westminster-Canterbury House, Richmond
VA. 23227
Actually I am a bit handicapped writing
the class notes as I was conspicuously absent
from 1918's 60th reunion. Although I had
written pep notes to members of the class
urging them to join us at Sweet Briar in May
to celebrate our 60th, the Norfolk gang had
to take off without me as my arthritis refused
to co-operate. (I had taken a fall boarding
ship for Bermuda a few weeks before, which
added to my complaint.)
Jane Pratt Betts came from Avon Park, FL,
with her very charming daughter, and Casey
(Louise Chase) McGuire, from Colorado. I
surely hated missing them and of course the
Halls, Betty Lowman and Asaph — they are
always so great to be with. Betty tried to phone
me when she returned home but was told
my phone was disconnected. Alarmed, she
called Cornelia Carroll Gardner at North
(near Williamsburg), and Cornelia called me
to see if I was still alive and kicking. (It was
my son's phone that caused the mixup — his
family is at the beach for the summer.) So I
called Betty in Elmira, NY, to tell her all
was well.
Betty reported that the three who were back
for Reunion had not seen each other in years
(Jane had never been back!) None of them
went to many meetings, but Jane and her
daughter took the campus tours, and Betty
and Asaph enjoyed hearing the "State of the
College" report. The picnic Saturday was at
the Whitemans', and the Class of '18 was
joined by Frances Murrell Rickards '10 and
Marie Klooz '23, as well as the Alumnae
Association Director, Ann Morrison Reams
'42, and Miss Winifred Walker. It was a
pleasant evening, as were all the planned
events.
Mag McVey wrote she was so pleased and
proud of our class record and thanks all
contributors to the fund for their cooperation.
Dorothy Harrison wrote from Palm Beach
that she could not join the reunion group
as she expected to spend the summer in the
Hudson Valley.
Elizabeth Madson Eddy sent greetings
from Oshkosh, WI, where she was recuperat-
ing from an operation and scheduled for
another — but hoped to be as good as new by
summer!
Catherine Marshall Shuler moved to Os-
prey, FL, a year ago to be near her daughters.
Remember what a pretty May Queen she was!
Cornelia Carroll Gardner says you
shouldn't quarrel about old age. It's a
privilege!
1922
Jane Duntap Pettit, Pittsburgh, has just
finished her term as president of the board
of a home for older people, which has just
completed an extensive renovation project.
Helen M. Hodgskin (formerly Fingerhuth)
sends greetings to her classmates from Zurich,
Switzerland, where she has lived since 1933.
She has three sons and seven grandchildren
between the ages of 5 and 14 — a delight to
her.
Emily Moon Spilman and Louis returned
in January from a seven-week visit with their
youngest daughter and family near Lima,
Peru. They also visited Paraguay, Brazil and
Argentina before returning home to 32 inches
of snow and ice in Waynesboro, VA. A few-
Secretary, pro tern
Kitty Blount Andersen (Mrs. Fred C), Bay-
port, MN 55003
Fund Agent
Marietta B. Darsie, 45 N. Wade Ave., Apt.
B-l, Washington, PA 15301
With sadness I must report the death of
two of our classmates: Mary Gladys Brown
Moore died Dec. 18, 1977, at her home on
Marco Island. Her daughter Mary reports
that she had played golf in the U.S. Seniors
Tournament at Pinehurst in September 1977.
Upon her return to Florida it was discovered
her illness had progressed rapidly. "She
was a great person and a fine mother." (A fine
tribute from her daughter.)
Katharyn Norris Kelley passed away at her
home in Ivy.VA, May 14, 1978. after a rugged
illness. She was able to appreciate a citation
made by the Charlottesville Chapter of Re-
cording for the Blind to honor her 20 years
of continuous volunteer service. A copy of the
resolution passed by that board following
her death was sent to me and I quote: "Always
willing, infinitely able and shunning personal
glory, she served in every capacity: as officer
and member of the Board of Directors, as
fund raiser from Charlottesville to Camden,
ME, as founder, innovator and first Chairman
of our Raised Line Drawing Department."
Our sincere sympathy is extended to the
members of the families of these classmates.
They will long be remembered by us all.
Our overseas classmates responded viliantly
to my plea for news.
Since Peg Krider Ivey is planning to move
very shortly and will then forward her new
address. Since Gordon's death before Christ-
mas '77 she has been busy clearing out an
accumulation of 20 years. "Being without
a gardener for five weeks this summer made
me realize I could not cope with a large
garden and house. I have bought a flat near
where I used to live and am looking forward
to starting a new life."
Helen Finch Halford, recovered from a
fractured arm and cut head (wonder what she
was up to), is laying plans for her 50th wed-
ding anniversary on Oct. 20. "Both of us,
our three children and five grandchildren
are fine. Our eldest grandson graduated with
first class honors from Cambridge U. and
received a two-year scholarship to Noygpya
U., Japan. He will then return to Cambridge
to work. I look forward to sister Woodis'
C25) coming for a long visit in August."
Ruth Abell Bear and her husband had
a good visit with their daughter and her
family in June, and on their way home from
Vermont they took a quick swing through
the rest of New England. She was expecting
an August visit from Peg Reinhold Mitchell,
now better after a bad fall and illness.
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Frances Dunlop Heiskell and husband
Jimmie. who is still working in Washington,
were planning a trip to Rehoboth Beach,
DE, to see her niece and family (including
12-year old son Ted Stephenson, who just won
the Missouri Valley Tennis Championship)
when they come East from Columbia, MO.
They were also looking forward to a trip to
Cape May, NJ, in August.
Elizabeth Cobb Sutherland wrote, "Saw
Margaret Cramer Crane and her husband
Bill around Thanksgiving on our way back
from spending the holiday with our son at
State College, PA. My husband was ill the
winter of '78 but is much better now, doing
almost everything, even driving."
Mary Lyb Loughery Arthur has just re-
turned from an "Elder Hostel" continuing
education at Mars Hill College, NC. Subject:
"Southern Appalachia" — history, folk tunes,
ecology, etc. Delightful, informative and fun.
"My family seems to have leveled off tem-
porarily at least — three middle-aged sons and
daughters-in-law, eight grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren."
Frances McCamish McNeel reported a
wonderful trip to Europe in May with a small
group from San Antone to see the wonders of
the Alps and the countries that contain them
— Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland —
wonderful three weeks with their own bus
and tour guide. She has a granddaughter
coming to Sweet Briar in September. She
reports terrible drouth — 100 degrees every day
for the past week. (We are happy for the relief
that finally arrived for the Texans.)
Marietta Darsie writes, "This is the busy
season at LeMoyne House, the historic house
in Washington where I am the Docent Chair-
man, and we have interesting visitors from
all over the U.S. and sometimes visitors from
other lands. I hope to be at the Alumnae
Council in October, (keeping my fingers
crossed) if it does not coincide with the dates
I am due in Philadelphia." She has acquired
a lot of photographic equipment and is doing
a lot of photography.
Edna Lee Gilchrist noted, "Joe and I made
a quickie trip to Copenhagen early in June
with both our girls and good Lynchburg
friends on a S.B. sponsored tour. Great fun.
Daughter Judy was married June 24th — small
wedding — Chancel St. Paul's — reception held
here — nice man. They have bought a house
in Arlington, VA. I am still working hard
on board of Seven Hills School."
Dottie Hamilton Davis and Allan were
signed up for a trip to Alaska, using Inland
Passageway, then home by way of Banff and
Lake Louise. "Instead I caught the bug or
whatever you get and was I relieved not to
be enroute. Perhaps we will make it next
year."
The middle of July Loey Peterson Wilson
was leaving for Cape Cod and Vermont. She
still attends reunions for former counselors
at Camp Quinebeck, almost every year. In
April she had a wonderful trip to Egypt,
Jordan, Syria, Israel and the Holy Land.
In September she is off to USSR, Poland,
Czechoslovakia and the Berlins. She had a
card from Jinny Lee Taylor Tinker and hus-
band Fred, who are in Switzerland visitng
daughter Joan and family. Loey must qualify
as our most outstanding traveler.
Betty Moore Rusk is on her way to their
camp in Maine. Stan has been out of the hos-
pital three weeks after surgery. He is strong
enough to make the trip and hopes Maine
air will build him up. All of their kids will
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be with them at various times during the
summer. They attended Stan's 50th in June
at Wesleyan and had a good time, but it
didn't compare to S.B.C. in '76 — at least
for Betty.
Wanda Jensch Harris has sold her house
and is now settled in an apartment in Indiana-
polis. IN. not far from her old home. She
reports. "Moving was exhausting and I am
here until my time on earth is up. Have re-
covered from three operations and my travel-
ing has been in and out of the hospital."
She plans to be with her brother near St.
Paul in July and spend Christmas with her
daughter Phebe (Class of '65) in Marathon,
FL.
Dot Keller Iliffs travels with Seward this
year include a trip to Hawaii, where they saw
Lib Roundtree and George Kellerman, both
fine, and found Molokai a little too unspoiled.
May took them to Lisbon, Madeira, Rome
and Greece with a group of Botanical Gardens
members. Special tours of Vatican Gardens
and Papal Summer Gardens outside of
Rome were out of this world. She keeps busy
landscaping, gardening, entertaining, trying
to keep cool. They just returned from Santa
Fe and the splendid opera productions
there.
Mary Bristol Graham and Cook spent the
month of April at Jekyll Island, GA, and
are now anticipating a fun-packed two weeks
as daughter Judy '58 and her family will be
with them.
Louise Fuller Freeman writes, "Spent last
Christmas in California with son and wife and
gorgeous Lisa, my two-year old grand-
daughter, and my Fargo granddaughter, age
9. flew to join me and we went to Disney-
land. In March I went to Southern Mexico
with friends. This fall I plan to join my
sister Margaret '28 and her husband and we
will spend a month in India, with Kashmir,
Nepal and Iran on our itinerary — it sounds
delicious. Later I shall be on a visit to Wash-
ington with several good friends from S.B.
who live there and see how things are really
done in some of the government offices
there. I plan to do as I have been doing, going
as fast as I can as long as I can before I
sit down to think where I have been. Life
in Fargo is busy and beautiful and I feel 43
—not—?"
Sarah Merrick Houriet replied, "I seem
to have lost contact with college classmates.
None live in Cleveland and the S.B.C. Club
seems to be extinct. Our two daughters live
in Cleveland, which is nice. I still keep up
my hospital work and work hard in my gar-
den (both vegetable and flower), freezing
excess beans and about to start a vegetable
stand outside to get rid of tomatoes!
Grandchildren are all well and doing their
things. Two grandsons are engaged and
granddaughter is married and living in
Houston."
Fred and I spent our first winter in Minne-
sota in 17 years where we had delightful
weather, safe from all the savage storms that
ravaged most of our country. Fred spent SVi
weeks in the hospital with a stubborn case
of pneumonia and I had the misfortune to
slip on ice and fracture my arm. but we are
back to normal now.
I thank you very much for the excellent
response to my call for news on such a short
notice. It was great fun hearing from you and
I apologize to those of you who were on
vacation and did not receive my notice in
time. Marjorie Shepherd, our talented scribe.
will be back on the job for your next issue.
1930
Secretaries
Liz Copeland Norfleet (Mrs. Fillmore), 2012
Minor Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22903
Betsy Williams Gilmore (Mrs. W. Kirk), 114
Bennington Rd., Charlottesville, VA 22901
Fund Agent
Gladys Wester Horton (Mrs. Leonard W.),
P.O. Box 308, Short Hills, NJ 07078
Another year closer to 1980, and we hope
you'll be keeping in mind Carolyn Martindale
Blouin's admonitions to turn up at our Fif-
tieth in late May of that year!
Meanwhile, we are keeping tabs on as many
of you as we can. The Mark Stevenses (Serena
Ailes), who conduct English Speaking Union
foreign tours, are a story in themselves.
However, we can focus in on them enough to
say that Josephine Reid and Charles Stubbs
joined their trip to Greece and Russia last
year, and that the Stevenses are presently
traveling the European inland waterway. The
Blouins and Mary Huntington Harrison had
recent trips to England, and Mary spend July
in Alaska. Mona Stone and Thornton Green,
who are always cruising on their boat, are,
perhaps, the most peripatetic of us all. They
went on a long Alaskan journey a year ago,
visiting family and friends along the way and
fishing in the great northern fishing grounds.
Gwen Olcott and June Writer went on a
whirlwind European trip last Spring — eight
countries in 18 days, she claims. They visited
Nancy Gaines Jaeger at Hanover, NH, last
spring because the Writers' son Jack is
coach of the Cornell soccer team which won
the Ivy League title with the Dartmouth game.
Nancy's son is in the admissions department
of Dartmouth. Ivy League all the way! Nancy
had just returned from Bermuda for the
big match; she was in Greece the year before
and will be on a North Cape cruise this season.
The Jimmy Greens (Merritt Murphey), hav-
ing just celebrated their 50th wedding anni-
versary, report meeting Louisa Schultz
(daughter of Louise Rogers Frank '34) and
her husband while backpacking in Wyoming
last year. Second-handedly, we learn that
Emmy Riely Lemaire recently traveled to
the Azores from her home in Portugal.
Mary Huntington Harrison's letter to
Carolyn was full of interesting encounters.
At the Alumnae Council meetings last fall,
Mary saw Scootie Gorsline (who "joyfully"
retired on April Fool's Day) and Jane Callison
Smith. Winifred West Morris '28 entertained
a group of interested Briarites at the Keen-
land Races in October. Anne Mason Brent
Winn '29, who has recently been visiting her
sister Eliza here in Charlottesville, was there
"looking beautiful," and so was Jimpse
Blackwell, "a handsome man with a beautiful
wife." On the way to SBC, Mary had been
with Jo Kluttz Ruffin '29 at a meeting of
the Gunston Hall Plantation Regents and
had stopped over with Pig Sproul and Ned
Bush, both of whom are much improved
in health. Mary reports that she will be in
Lexington, KY, in September for the World
Championship Equestrian meet, for which
daughter Edith is an official.
In the convalescent department are Jean
Saunders and Mary Moss Sutliff. Jean reports
that she is less handicapped than formerly
with rheumatoid arthritis, and that she is
still as interested as ever in the work of local
organizations, but at a slower pace. Mary
has almost recovered from a severe abdominal
operation and sounds as cheery as ever. Ruth
Hasson Smith is recovering with her custom-
ary determination and great style from a
broken hip, the result of a purse-snatching
assault in Florida last winter. Betsy recently
had lunch with her in Pittsburgh and reports
a fine pow-wow — fun as always.
Gladys Wester Horton, who is as good
a "sharer" of her news as Carolyn, writes
that she and Florence Lodge Moulton had
their first meeting in 40 years last winter.
Florence spends some of her time with two
sons and her grandchildren in Ohio and "still
has a lot of red hair," says Gladys. The
Hortons had a grand trip to Hawaii last fall.
During her regular Florida sojourns, Gladys
frequently plays golf with Belle Brocken-
brough Hutchins '29 and Squeak Harned
Ross '28. Evaline Edmands Thoma and Carl
also play a few holes of golf most days; they
now live conveniently near the 18th green
in Englewood, FL.
Francie Harrison McGiffert attended
Turk's 50th reunion at V.M.I, last May, a trip
which netted her two good visits: one with
Lucy Harrison Miller Baer at SBC, and
another with Myra Marshall Brush in Lex-
ington.
Telia Barksdale Bailey gravitates between
Nathalie. VA, and Roanoke where she baby-
sits with her two grandsons. Lucy Shirley
Otis's son Billy, a representative of the depart-
ment of justice, has been involved in repatria-
ting Americans in Mexican jails, and vice-
versa — a good man to know.
In Williamsburg, by the way, Liz had a
lovely chance meeting with Anne Harrison
Shepherd Lewis '29. Talking about people
being unchanged by time, you should see
Anne Harrison! As you all know, the members
of the 1930 have kept valued friendships
with members of other classes. That's the
enduring Sweet Briar ambience!
Our 1930 company has been deeply sad-
dened by the death of Martha Lee Poston in
Williamsburg and that of Betty McCrady
Bardwell last April in Florida. Martha pub-
lished many stories for young people about
China, where she spent her childhood, and she
won the Junior Literary Guild Award twice in
a row. Betty was also a writer of children's
literature, having won national recognition
for her stories. She was a regular contributing
writer for the Mount Dora, FL. newspapers.
Another sad loss is that of our class sponsor,
Kay Norris Kelley, '26 whose death in May
distressed all of us here in Charlottesville
who have had the joy of her warm friendship.
She gave us all her loving support during our
college years and continued that affectionate
interest in us all as long as she lived.
Our deepest sympathy goes out to Sims
Massie Rand and to Anne Lewis MacClintock.
who recently lost their husbands. Sims writes
that she is trying to keep busy and useful.
like many others at this stage of our lives.
Our Charlottesville Christmas lunch, to
which we gave a helping hand, was at the
home of Mary Hill Noble Caperton '54 and
was a real success. Young Althea Hurt '80
gave us a splendid "state of the College" talk;
and in May she even invited the whole local
group for coffee! Aside from struggling
through the past ridiculous winter, we have
been doing the usual — and the unusual. Betsy
has been dabbling in local politics ever
since she got into an exciting zoning hassle,
and then she drove off to Pittsburgh to visit
old friends and to Baltimore to visit her
daughter Nell. Liz has been learning to drive
a car — at 70! See how durable we Briarites
are? We'll probably make it through to 1980
without further deterioration.
1934
Secretary
Joanna Fink Meeks (Mrs. David). 704 N.
Calvert Ave., Muncie, IN 47303
Fund Agent
Betty Suttle Briscoe (Mrs. Clarence), 56
South Sea Pines Drive, Hilton Head Island,
SC 29928
We didn't send double postcards solicit-
ing news this year because of increased
postal rates and the meagre response from
last years mailing. Thanks to all who sent
news on the flap of fund envelopes to Sweet
Briar. According to our great little Fund
Agent, Betty Suttle Briscoe, there should be
many more such news items because the
class of '34 had 66.6% participation when
I last heard from her. Out of 68 classes only 5
outdid us — two of those were early classes
with 2 or 3 members and 100% record. Please
use the Fund envelope flap for news! In the
fall, the Briscoes travelled to the Orient,
in the spring (just at the time of the Senate
debates and vote) they had a wonderful
cruise through the Panama Canal, and July
found them in British Columbia, Canadian
Rockies, Banff, Lake Louise, Vancouver,
etc. In between they made trips north to
see the children — most recently to be on
hand for the arrival of grandchild #5. All love
to visit Hilton Head. There will be two in
residence over Labor Day — no chance for
boredom in their retirement.
When Dee Hutchinson Howe's mother
went into a nearby nursing home at 97, after
living with Dee and Spil 14 years, they were
faced with moving Dec. 29 from their big
house in Darien to a smaller but heavenly
sounding one in Norwalk, CT, and are now
ready for inspection. At their rear property
line is Five Mile River plus a waterfall with
water wheel and dam built during the Civil
War.
Our deepest sympathy goes out to Mary
Krone Sells, whose husband Charles died
in Cross River, NY, early this year.
Bonnie Wood Stookey's news from Cotuit,
MA. is that she recently gathered her clan
together from far corners of the world —
Hong Kong, Iran, Beirut and studies in
France and Italy. The wedding of her son
David to an English girl drew her and mem-
bers of her family to England right after
Christmas. He's the son who sailed a 21 -foot
boat, singlehandedly, across the Atlantic
from England to the West Indies. He and his
wife were given a rousing welcome (even a
cannon salute by one of Bonnie's neighbors)
as they sailed into the East coast in the same
boat. They hope to settle in New England.
Son Jeff is working on a Doctorate in Edu-
cation at Boston U. and son Crane is a second
year Architectual student at Harvard.
Elinor Fitch Welch retired in the spring
from library work and wishes fellow class-
mates would look her up when in St. Peters-
burg. FL.
Mary Walton McCandlish Livingston, who
lives in Alexandria, VA, would like any
alumnae, especially 1934, visiting the National
Archives in Washington doing research or
seeing the exhibits, to look her up. Working
hours are 8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. and her office
phone is 202-523-3206.
In Richmond, Lydia Goodwyn Lorentzen
is still a busy volunteer serving as President
of the Board of Brookfield, Inc., a foster
care home for displaced adolescents.
Mary Rogers Moser's husband John is now
almost recovered from a severe stroke he
had in Nov. '75. One married daughter,
husband and two sons live only 50 miles from
Coronado. Her younger daughter. Navy officer
husband, grandson and granddaughter now
livein Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii.
Marjorie Lasar Hurd spent the winter in
Hawaii with her son David, his wife and two
little girls (if I remember correctly they too
live in Kailua, as does my daughter with
her husband and two daughters. We'll have
to have a reunion there some day.) She still
works part time when at home in St. Louis.
In March David and I celebrated our 40th
anniversary in Hawaii, where we were
married and lived for 2'A years. Eighteen
of our mainland friends toured the islands
with us for two weeks, having dinner at our
Anne's Kailua home on the big day. During
a ten-day family get-together at Harbor
Springs. MI, we repeated a beach picnic
and fun canoe trip with Bonney McDonald
Hatch, her son Steve, his wife and two
daughters, who had a cottage on Lake Michi-
gan near us.
Helen Closson Hendrick's two daughters
flew in from their homes in Germany in July.
Nancy brought her 2-yr. old but sent her 4-
year old to visit his Austrian grandmother
for two weeks. Lib came for a month with
Brian. 14 months, whom Helen and Leo had
never seen. Susan Hendricks Slayman '60
came from Virginia Beach without her busy
17-and 15-year-old son and daughter. Son
Jim. who lives in Logansport, IN, with his
family, completed the first family reunion
in several years. Husband Leo (sort of) re-
tired in April; so they can visit the girls more
often.
Mary Lee Ryan Strother wrote of an inter-
esting trip they had last year to South Africa.
Kenya, Egypt and Istanbul. They regretted
not having a week in each place and particu-
larly want to see more of Africa.
Connie Burwell White declares that the
public relations world for the Whites in
Denver continues very busy and their days
are filled with interesting contacts and assign-
ments, gardening and fishing.
We are so fortunate to have two of our
classmates right at Sweet Briar — Julia
Sadler de Coligny as Director of Estate
Planning is working hard to make us all
understand how much we can help our college
by entering into a Deferred-Giving plan right
now. She also was the hostess for the Sweet
Briar trip to Ireland in July. She sees Becky
Strode Lee and her husband St. George in
Richmond, and says Becky maintains her pro-
fessional status as a social worker by her part-
time job with the Virginia Home.
And Jackie Bond Wood has just been made
a vice president of the College! In June she
enjoyed the Alumnae trip to Copenhagen.
for which she served as a hostess.
Please don't forget our 45th reunion in May.
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1938
SecretaryPro Tern (Reunion Report)
Marion Brown Snider (Brownie), One Beach
Dr.. #805. St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Secretary
Mabbie Breckmans Smith (Mrs. Robert S.,
II), 1 1540 Links Dr.. Reston, VA 22070
Fund Agent
Jane Bemis Wills (Mrs. Allan C), 76 Maywood
Rd..Darien.CT 06820
Twenty-nine of us brave and lucky Briarites
of '38 returned to the Patch after 40 years —
to be richly rewarded. So much did we enjoy
it. we're already anticipating our 50th. and
even considering a repeat only 5 years hence!
Condolences to all of you who missed it.
We did miss you, too.
Frannie Bailey Brooke — prettier than
ever — did a simply super chairing of our Class
Reunion. Besides Frannie, those who made it
back were Dee Armfield Cannon, Judy
Bemis Wills, Lyn Beidenharn Swayze, Gene
Brock Hawley, Mary Cobb Hulse, Harriet
Daniel Herd, Babbie Derr Chenoweth,
Elinor Edenton Smith, Isabelle Franke De-
Graff, Macky Fuller Kellogg, Bessie Lee
Garbee Siegrist, Lew Griffith Longstaff, Jo
Happ Willingham, Rose Hyde Fales, Nancy
McCandlish Prichard, Betty Moore Stowers,
Sigur Moore Whittaker, Dolly Nicholson
Tate, Toto Sergeant, Pollyanna Shotwell
Holloway. Carolyn Staman Ogilvie, Molly
Talcott Dodson, Lucy Taliaferro Nickerson,
Dot Thomas Upton, Dot Tison Campbell,
Ida Todman Pierce, Sarah Tomlinson Foscue,
Yours Truly (Brownie Snider) and seven, if
I counted right, handsome husbands.
The happy times began with Happy Hour
Friday. May 19, in the Quadrangle, and
continued through dinner, fashion show
and lecture on "Collectible Fabrics," and
talking far into the night in our Meta Glass
rooms (nearly all on the 3rd Floor).
A few demonstrated their youthfulness
by going on a bird walk at 7 a.m. The majority
of us barely made breakfast and then most
satisfying "State of the College" addresses
by President Harold Whiteman, Dean Bea-
trice Patt, Vice President and Treasurer
Peter Daniel and Admission Director Nancy
Baldwin.
At our Class Meeting we quickly elected
Mabbie Berckmans Smith, who had com-
piled our Scrapbook but wasn't able to
attend or defend, new Class Secretary. We
also named Judy Bemis Wills Fund Agent
and Dot Tison Campbell next Reunion
Chairman. Then we all pored over the Scrap-
book, especially appreciating those who had
send snapshots and hoping that those who
neglected to send anything will feel ashamed.
Luncheon in the Refectory honored all
the Reunion classes, each of which presented
an entertaining and, for the most part, hilar-
ious skit, song or whatever. For our contri-
bution Dolly Nick read a poetic gem Tison
had penned. But our proudest moment came
when Elizabeth Bond Wood announced the
SBC Alumnae Award to an alumna for out-
standing service to the College in a volunteer
capacity — and that alumna was none other
than our Dolly Nicholson Tate! Tears ran
down all our cheeks, as well as Dolly's, while
the Refectory rafters rang with our singing
"Hello, Dolly!"
Saturday afternoon there were options of
informational sessions, swimming, golf,
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tennis, hiking, tours of Sweet Briar House
and bus tours of the campus. The latter in-
cluded Protho Natatorium, new stables,
Benedict (You'd never recognize remodeled
Academic!), renewed boathouse, the Old
Station coffee house and the exciting new
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at
Mount San Angelo. Some attended the Book
Shop Open House. And our indefatigable
Macky played three sets of tennis!
The campus surpassed its own famous
beauty. Changes that have taken place over
the years have only improved Sweet Briar.
Even the weather was nearly perfect for
Reunion Weekend.
At 6 p.m. we gathered at Redtop, where
Miss Rogers received "her" class in her
rocker on the porch while we consumed beer
and boxed suppers on the lawn, overlooking
the matchless Blue Ridge. Robert Holloway,
lone candidate for Mayor of the Class, was
summarily elected. Then back to "our dorm"
for more talking (Well, it takes time to cover
40 years!) — tho some of us pooped out a
little earlier than on Friday night.
After breakfast Sunday there was a service
in the Chapel, with dedication of beautiful
needlepoint kneelers. Then coffee and dough-
nuts were served on the porch of Wailes
Center, followed by the "Alumnae College"
and, for a great windup to an unforgettable
weekend, buffet luncheon in Sweet Briar
Gardens.
I leave personal news notes for Mabbie
to write. Be sure to get her up to date. Note
my new address, heading this column, and
when you come St. Pete-way, please call.
It was so good seeing all of you who got to
Reunion that I'm hoping to see more of you
who were there, as well as something of you
who weren't!
I am making a very brief bow as class
secretary as I have been thoroughly intimi-
dated by the letter of instruction from the
Alumnae Office. Herewith, a few items:
Carolyn Staman Ogilvie wrote that the 40th
"was a super weekend." I hope that expresses
the feeling of all who went to reunions.
Rose Hyde Fales, a free lance writer, was
in Yugoslavia in '77 and subsequently had
an article in the fall issue of European Com-
munity.
Now, to less cheery activities: Barbie
Ferguson Hill had her leg in a cast as a result
of an accident while boating in the Bahamas.
Ces Jansen Kendrick had a much more
serious fall over her golf bag — breaking her
hip. Commiseration and happy recovery to
both.
Toto Sergeant Leonard had. as of last
September, her first grandchild, a boy. M.J.
Miller Hein and husband have moved to
Hilton Head. Kate Sulzburger Levi since
leaving Washington has been caught up in
her husband's law activities, part of which was
a semester at Stanford. The Edgar Bennetts
(Jesse Silver) own vacation property in St.
Martin's, in case anyone is planning a trip
to the Islands.
The answers to my question about the
Women's Movement showed the vast majority
of us are in favor of it but feel little sympathy
for the radical faction.
Congrats to our new President, Dorothy
Tison Campbell, and gratitude to Judy Bemis
Wills for being Class Agent.
I will be sending out a newsletter to you
later.
1942
Secretary
Mary Stone Moore Rutherfoord (Mrs. Julian
H., Jr.), 3486 Peakwood Dr., S.W., Roanoke,
VA 24014
Fund Agent
Helen Sanford, 6211 W. N.W. Highway, Apt.
1 100, Dallas, TX 75225
*P.W. = Patchworker for Alumnae Fund
Little did I know that my urgent postcard
would bring forth so many newsy illegible
cards — some happy, exciting, proud and sad.
James A. McNaughton wrote of the death
of Jane Hamilton, his wife, Dec. 6th at
Daytona Beach, FL. His address: 1098 Regent
St., Schenectady. NY 12309. Our dear Presi-
dent, Margaret Preston Moore, * is finally
settled in St. Petersburg, FL, where Gerald
with early retirement has bought The
Chateau, apartment motel at Bellean Beach,
in the sun and among friends. Others follow-
ing the sun are Eddie Syska Peltier and
husband who replaced their home in Weston,
MA, with a condominium and boat in Naples,
FL. Eddie is Paul's private secretary and
travels to Chicago to see Peter and family
and to N.Y. to see Mike and Sue. Betty
Whitaker Hook's husband had open heart
surgery and is semi-retired, enjoying summer
on the Severn River. They have three married,
a wedding in the fall and a Junior at Villanova
U.
Chookie Groves Martin, the mother of five
(four married) and four grandchildren, has
had a laugh at a picture Dottie Malone Yates
and Peggy Cunningham Allen had taken
of her at Peggy's wedding. She also saw Grace
Lanier Brewer and Hortense Powell Cooper
'40 on a visit to Tennessee. Bill Van Allen,
Salley Schall's * husband, is a lawyer in
Charlotte, and their three boys have flown the
coup, giving her time for "Spirit Square,"
the downtown arts center in an Old Baptist
Church. Son Kent is in Summit, NJ. George
is a film maker working on a National En-
dowment for the Arts grant, and Peter is with
the Dept. of Commerce in Washington. Si
Walke Rogers * saw Barbara Ripley Furniss
in Washington, where she has lived nine
years and where she enjoys counseling women
at a local university. Barbara asserted her
independence last year, touring Europe alone.
"Si" will have enjoyed visits with Betsy
Chamberlin Burchard and Ginny Thayer
Boothby in California.
The only '42er reporting to be in my neck
of the woods is Marion Mundy Young and I
missed her. Happy, her daughter, may be
back for graduate school at Hollins. Son Rob
is at Tulane and Ann Morton will be at S.B.C.
this fall, after receiving scholastic and sports
honors at St. Agnes. Marion works to pre-
serve the historic area of Alexandria, VA.
Our novelist, Jane Parkhurst, alias Nancy
Taylor Smith, will have another book,
Southern Moon, out soon. She and Harris
will go to Britian to research the Edward IV
battlefield and castles. They just might look
up Margaret Becker Schiltges who will rent
a cottage for the summer in the English
countryside. Her daughter Margaret Schiltges
Schultheiss '71, her husband and their baby
are year-round residents of Cheshire, Eng-
land. Our industrious Fund Agent, Helen
Sanford, will join them there for a visit.
She wishes to thank all * gals for help on
A.F. Helen writes that Charles Affel, Eugie
Burnett's son, was one of the young adven-
turers whose sailboat was seized by the Viet-
namese. He's home safe now.
Did a drama major prepare her to manage
a resale shop (all volunteers) for the benefit
of a Child Guidance Center, Eleanor Ringer
Linn muses. Or for a son who is working
in micro-electronics? Husband John is re-
tiring from Queens College of CUNY this
year. Dot Myers Morehead spends time in
a new condominium at Wrightsville Beach
and was in Washington in June when John
directed a course for surgeons at the Armed
Forces Institute of Pathology. Another world
traveler, Ann Hauslein Potterfield, and Tom
spent five glorious weeks in France and Italy
and are on the River this summer. Daughter
Betsy finished her first year at W.Va. U; Ann
lives in Shedpardstown, WV; Lucy may have
had her baby by now. Those traveling to Gen-
eva, Switzerland, will find Peter and Mary
Alice Bennett Baumberger residing at 1249
GY. Peter is President of Baumberger Beer
Co. and chairman of the board of Carba Co.
Her children live in this country and she
boasts three grandsons and one grand-
daughter. Gloria Sanderson Sartor with four
grandchildren does a lot of "grannying" be-
tween Church, League and civic work. If
you lack excitement try that rubber raft
white-water ride on the Colorado River she
and Lane took. Bobbie Engh Craft's grand-
children number eight, all adorable, and she
is living happily in Glenview, IL, with numer-
ous trips to Arizona and Southern California,
where she and Crosswell go on business. Alice
King Harrison had a call from Dotty Hutch-
ings Donley * who reports her #1 son acting/
directing in Washington and also having
some things published; #2 son is also a writer
of two screen plays. Her daughter is married
to a smashing fellow, while Dotty is still at
the drafting board for American Air Filter.
Alice also sent a beautiful article aboutdaugh-
ter Frances, who is one of six juniors tapped
by Phi Beta Kappa at Vanderbilt, U. Oldest
daughter Letitia teaches in West Memphis,
AR, where she lives with her banker husband
and two daughters. Other daughter, Nancy,
teaches kindergarten in Forrest City and is
about to build a log house. Shirley Houseman
Nordham paid a surprise visit with her and
Morris (now retired postmaster). "Gege"
Moomaw Hall has really settled in a precious
house in Roanoke, where she entertained our
Alumnae Club, with our Director Ann Mor-
rison Reams as guest speaker. Daughter
Betty Powell lives in Savannah, where hus-
band is manager for Metropolitan Life Ins.
Co. Billy is in Charlotte, NC, with Price-
Waterhouse. Ann reports all children and
grandchildren have come back to Lynchburg
to roost. In her travels she has seen Betsy
Chamberlain Burchard in S.F., Dottie
Malone Yates and Sudie Clark Hanger in
Atlanta, Flossie Bagley Witt in Chattanooga,
Edie Brainerd Walter * in D.C., Betty
Blackmer Childs '43 and Grace Bugg Mul-
ler-Thym. Sudie had a Freshman scholar this
year, Nancy, who has also been named a
Sophomore scholar and member of Sweet
Tones. Her other clan is scattered but close
by. She missed seeing any '42 at parents
week-end, when she stayed with Miss Buck-
ham. At home she has been active in Faith
at Work. Jean Hedley Currie says daughter
Candee, husband and two children have
been in Saudi Arabia six months and are now
back in Massachusetts. Son Douglas lives
nearby. She has seen Fran Meek Temple.
From Lynchburg Laura Graves Howell writes
that her clan is returning also, like Ann's.
Her husband retired in December and if
they're not home they're at Kitty Hawk.
A third edition of Round the Mountains,
a guidebook on Western N.C. by Ruth
Hensley Camblos, is out — in case you are
traveling that way. Daughter Margaret
graduated from Salem Academy and is on
her way to SBC. Stuart '70 with one precious
child, Jennifer (4), has another in the oven.
Son Josh is in Boston working in Maxilo
Facial Field.
Ruth Jacquot Tempest has been to Charles-
ton and saw the sitting room in "Symphony
Designer House" done by a '68 alumna. Ruth
does editing for her university job in Pensa-
cola.
The top job is running a lodge summer
and fall and tripping to Vienna in the fall
and basking in the sun in Tortalla in April
while her eldest son and daughter are manag-
ing a Morgan Horse operation. Twins Libby
and Dean are seniors in college and Wayne
graduated from high school. All this is the
life of Elizabeth Duffield Fajans, Wil-
mington, VT.
The only other Patchworkers for the A.F.
who are due credit are Bambi Ryan and
Rufus Pierson Fischer, who wrote to you but
not to me.
There is not enough time or space here
to tell you even a little of my days. I still
grandmother all the time and there is deep
satisfaction in that. Julian and I spend a lot
of time on Cursillo — a short course in
Christianity. We have led "The Edge of
Adventure" and "Living the Adventure" for
two groups looking for a deeper spiritual
commitment. We take a quick vacation each
day when we sit down and analyze its pur-
pose. Bless each of you and those at SBC
who make these notes possible.
1946
Secretaries
Lucy (Cholly) Jones Bendall (Mrs. Robert P.),
Benbrooke Farm, Star Rt. 2, Yanceyville,
NC 27379
Jean (Polly) Pollard Kline, 4101 Park Ave.,
Richmond, VA 23221
Fund Agent
Elinor Clement Littleton (Mrs. Frederick C),
407 Woodland Ave., Wayne, PA 19087
Putting together these exciting class notes
has an automatic built-in bonus for us. In
addition to finding out all of the things that
our sister Briarites are doing and telling you
about them, we have an excuse for getting
together at least once a year. Last year the
Bendalls drove to Richmond, where we put
together our notes for the 1977 report. This
summer the Klines came to the country home
of the Bendalls near Danville to write this one.
It's fun to visit back and forth, but we can't
write much unless you 46ers let us know what
you're up to. Some of you have, thank good-
ness. For instance. . .
Jesse Strickland Elcock writes that she is
living on the Southern coast of California.
Barey Kennedy Neel is a Trustee of the
Historical Society, is on the vestry of the
historical St. Luke's Church and is active in
hospital and garden club work in Granville,
OH.
Catherine Smart Grier's son Joe finished
law school at Chapel Hill last spring and has
an office in Charlotte, NC. Her daughter
Susan was married in October and lives in
Maryland.
Anne Stubbs Fitzsimmons ran into Betty
Anne Gaines Myers as she was helping her
daughter and son-in-law move in next door
to her last fall and recognized her after not
seeing her for over 30 years!
Betsy Bowman Townsend had a good re-
union with Dottie Caldwell Crowell and
Carroll Cone Cozart last fall at Dottie's
mountain home near Canton, NC.
Candy Greene Manbeck met Marjorie
Christian Schley at Hilton Head for lunch
in March.
Libba Fruit Metzenthin's youngest, Margie,
graduated from DePauw in May 1977 and
works in the Chicago area. Libba has a mar-
ried daughter in Corpus Christi, a married
son in St. Louis and two grandchildren.
Bea Dingwell Loos' large family has dwindled
to just one child at home, but she stays busy
running a school with 160 little children.
This is Monk Witherspoon Brannon's
sixth year with four children in college: Tony,
married, a sophomore med student at
Vanderbilt; Becky, a first year student in
Christian Education; John, a junior at Fur-
man; Vairin, a junior in high school; and
Bill, in the 8th grade.
The Bendalls visited their two sons, Robert
and Gordon, in New York City, both of whom
are appearing in off-off Broadway produc-
tions. While there, Cholly talked to Bertha
Lee Toole and Joan Berend Morse. In June
of 1977, Bert married William Toole, a
bachelor, who took on not only a wife but
also seven children and a baby granddaugh-
ter. He is principal of an Episcopal prep
school, is on the faculty of the Julliard School
of music and is organist and choir director
of Christ Church, Oyster Bay, L.I.
Joan Berend Morse returned to New York
City in 1971 after the tragic death of her
husband Arthur in Yugoslavia. The Aspen
Institute for Humanistic Study gives an
annual communications award in his memory
and Bill Moyers was the first recipient. Joan
is president of her father's fund-raising and
public relations firm. Her daughter is working
for her masters at Leslie College in Cambridge
and her son Jonathan, an extremely talented
composer and performer, lives in Denver.
Cholly has retired from teaching French
and now has a full-time job with Danville
Travel Service. Start planning now to come
to our 35th reunion in 1981, and if she can
help you with your travel plans, let her know.
1950
Secretary
Waller Berkeley Fergusson (Mrs. Russell G.),
6439 Roselawn Rd., Richmond VA 23226
Fund Agent
Debbie Freeman Cooper (Mrs. E. Newbold,
Jr.), Orchard Lane, Wallingford. PA 19086
Exactly one year ago today, I promised my-
self I would do two things for certain during
the year. One was to save the fall Alumnae
Magazine so I would have a copy of last
year's notes and the other was to write lots
of cards at Christmas and in return receive
bountiful news of our fellow classmates.
Since both of these things slipped by me, I
am now experiencing my annual July depres-
21
sion (which always arrives simultaneously
with the 95 degree temperature) over strug-
gling to make an exciting and worthwhile
report with the few bits and pieces of infor-
mation that have come my way concerning
the class of 1950.
FIFTY — we might as well admit amongst
ourselves that that number has or will have
shortly a great deal of significance for all of
us. For those of you who have already reached
your half-century, congratulations! I know
each of you has exhibited or will exhibit
courage, fortitude, and cheerfulness on hav-
ing celebrated this milestone in life. It's just
a pity that it arrives along with lots of bills
from colleges and that we are not able to reap
our just rewards, in the form of jewels, furs,
cars, and trips to expensive and exotic places.
I think perhaps guaranteed results from some
of those colleges might be reward enough
for some of us!
Here's what our new senior citizens are
doing:
Lucy Kreusler Cary is to be congratulated
on receiving a Master's Degree in Social
Work and Community Planning from the U.
of Maryland. She has been working and study-
ing for the past three years and is currently
working for the Maryland State Dept. of
Human Resources.
Jo Gulick Grant (Mrs. William) and family
returned last fall from a four-year tour of duty
at the American Embassy in Singapore. They
are now living in Washington, DC. While
in Singapore Jo taught high school French
at the American School. She is now involved
in a program of intensive English classes
for newly arrived Jewish immigrants from the
U.S.S.R. Jo's daughter Jennifer graduated
from Worster College (Ohio) in June. Another
daughter, Ellen, was a freshman at the U. of
New Hampshire this past year. There are two
Grant boys at home, and the whole family
is glad to be back stateside, although some-
what overwhelmed by the cost of living here.
John Rasmussen retired from the Navy in
August of '76 and is now manager of construc-
tion for the Potomac Electric Power Co. He
and his wife, Dolly Clark have moved to
Bethesda, MD, and have become grand-
parents for the second time.
Emma Kyle Kimpel is working for her local
newspaper as a photographer. She has a
married son in the Air Force and another son
getting an M.S. in engineering from the U.
of Conn. Her daughter Alice is a freshman
at Eisenhower College in Seneca Falls, NY.
Her husband Helmut is in public relations
and politics.
Two messages from Lola Steele Shepherd
turned up in the most recent batch forwarded
from SBC. The first one was just chit-chat,
but the second one is full of news including
for me the very startling information that
one of her daughters is now working right
here in Richmond. Another daughter of
Lola's, Gina, graduated from SBC a year ago
May, having transferred from UCLA in
order to study the James River. (I like that.
It sounds like some of the logic we get around
our house.) Gina went on to V.P.I, graduate
school this past year. It sounds as if some
real Virginia genes got into Lola's girls.
Jody Livingston McFall writes from Jack-
sonville of the publication of a book of poetry
written by her daughter Gardener. Her son
Dodge is attending Tufts College. It's good
to hear from Jody again after such a long
time.
Bonnie Lloyd Crane will be living in Cairo
for the next couple of years. Her husband is
designing a new town, Sadat City, between
Cairo and Alexandria. Her youngest daughter,
Amanda, will be with them on this very excit-
ing and impressive venture. She will attend
the American School in Cairo.
Bless Sally Bianchi Foster for including me
on her Christmas card list. The card included
a picture of a very happy family group ob-
viously enjoying a pre-game picnic lunch.
She didn't say where the picnic took place.
It could have been Swarthmore, where her
oldest daughter, Meg, was in her senior
year. Or it could have been at Johns Hopkins,
where Kate is studying Urban Planning, or
Yale, where her son Andy was enjoying his
freshman year, as was Joan Teetor Saxe's
daughter Emily. Andy Foster was a National
Merit Finalist at the high school in Verona.
Bill Bailey Fritzinger and Nancy Nelson
Swiggett had a twosome reunion at Bill's
daughter's wedding in June a year ago.
Nancy's family's number one pastime seems
to be skiing. Her annual Christmas card
always includes mention of a forthcoming
ski trip somewhere.
Susan Tucker Yankee writes from Mem-
phis of her expectations of becoming a grand-
mother and also of a trip to England and
Scotland. Her daughter Ellen graduated with
highest honors from the U. of Tenn. Needless
to say, this gave her parents a special pleasure.
In case some of you wonder about the funny
time element involved in these news events,
it's because the notes I refer to are almost
a year old by the time our turn to be in the
Alumnae Magazine rolls around. I get a
little confused at times trying to keep the
years straight. I am sure I make some mis-
takes in the process. Forgive me.
I guess it is just impossible to keep from
adding my own two cents worth of news to this
report. In July I went to N.Y.C. for the first
time in ten years. Molly Fergusson lucked out
on a summer job there and Fergie and I went
up to spend a weekend with her. I went with
mixed emotions; how else can you go to NYC
after a long lapse, except with mixed emo-
tions? It was fun! Expensive, dirty in parts,
depressing in parts — but still fun. Molly loves
New York and I am sure would love to return
there on a permanent basis after she finishes
at the Wharton School of Finance next spring.
She loves it the same way she loves being in
the heart of Philadelphia at an urban univer-
sity. I was in a state of shock after we de-
posited her at Wharton last fall. I guess I
will always expect colleges to have lovely
rural campuses and get a good laugh at
myself when I get home and have a chance
to reflect on my own naivete. She considers
it being in the real world and for all I know
she is absolutely right and I am still banging
around in Never-Never Land. My Never-
Never Land at this moment is a very peaceful
cottage overlooking the Chesapeake Bay.
The horizon is usually filled with sailboats,
and there is a cool breeze that makes you
forget the heat and humidity of our Rich-
mond summers. Our cottage is at Deltaville
and we would love to share it with anyone
coming this way by land or sea!
So long. Ladies. I feel much better now that
I can say, "Done for another year." This
euphoria will last until the winter issue comes
out and then my reaction will be, "How
pitiful!" Save me from this situation by
writing to me during the year, please!
1954
Secretary
Bruce Watts Krucke (Mrs. William), 101 Old
Tavern Lane, Summerville, SC 29483
Fund Agent
Joy Parker Eldredge (Mrs. Charles L.), 4550
Island Rd., Miami, FL 33137
Well. I hope to tell you just enough about
people to get you all revved up about seeing
everyone again at our Big 25th Reunion. The
dates are May 18-20 — so mark your calendars
now! Shall we have a "who comes the farther-
est" contest? Joan Oram Reid and Penny
Norman could come from England; Margaret
Van Peenan Grimes, from Belgium; or Logan
Bentley Lessona, from Italy. Ann Thomas
Donahue is back from the Philippines, but
California is still pretty far. And we can't
find Ginger Sadacca — anyone know where
she lives now?
Shirley Poulson Hooper is trying to make
us feel old — talking about her grandchildren.
Holly has two little boys. Trey just finished
UNC and Laurie is at the U. of Richmond.
Michelle goes to St. Paul's. Joan Anson
Hurwit has typical SBC grad offspring. Jeff
finished Duke magna cum laude and is at
Boston U. Law School. Susan started at Conn.
College, but transferred to Brown or Wes-
leyan. Elizabeth graduated from Loomis-
Chafee first in her class and is going to
Harvard. Cindy Sinclair Rutherford's son
Doug singlehandedly began a radio station
in his Wichita high school. Young Bill is at
Kansas U. The new art Museum in Wichita
features a pair of beautiful, elegant fountains
sculpted by Cindy's husband Bill. Cindy led
a workshop at the National Middle School
Assoc, meeting in Denver. Anne Sheffield
Hale's son Sheffield is going to Hotchkiss.
(The sons of Joan Brophy Tyree '53 are there
too.) Anne is on the Board for Wolf Trap in
Washington and very active in the Ga. Trust
for Historic Preservation. Peggy Jones
Stewart's family were all over the place in
'77 — Elizabeth graduated from Yale, Guy III
toured the Far East, Brad camped and rode
in Colorado, and the twins, in Vermont. The
whole family spent Christmas in Jamaica.
Lynn Carlton McCaffree is now in Norfolk,
where Mike commands the USS Shreveport.
Lynn hopes to meet him in Europe when the
ship is in the Mediterranean. Betsy spent
a school year in France, went to William
and Mary summer school so she could grad-
uate in December, and was married in Jan-
uary to a naval officer, David Antanitus.
They live in California, where he's on a nu-
clear submarine. Debbie is at the U. of
Jacksonville. Lynn is very busy with a number
of "wives" groups with the navy. Jeanne
Stoddart Barends writes that Freddie is
co-captain of the soccer team and also plays
basketball. Jeanne drives 65 miles a day so
Amy can continue at Worthington Christian
School. She spends a great deal of time car-
ing for her 93-year-old aunt and her unwell
mother-in-law. Tennis is her recreation (true
for many of us!) Mary Ann Bowns Bell plays
in the same group.
Bev Smith Bragg's daughter Dabney is at
Vanderbilt Law School after graduating from
the U. of Ala. (Ann Henry Lake's daughter
is at Vandy also.) Dabney got her start at
SBC. Martha is at Brenau — she spent the
summer in Europe. Bill and Bev had a trip
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to Austria. Bev is very active in civic work
and Woman Health. Dilly Johnson Jones'
daughter Sanford is at Mary Baldwin. Paul
III has been helped enormously by a new
seizure medicine and is finishing high school.
Louise was sophomore class president and
plays varsity basketball. The Joneses see the
Deatons (Ruthie Frye) quite ofren. The
Deatons also visited Barbara Chase Webber
in Houston. Ruthie's daughters attended
tennis camp at SBC. Mary Ballard Ward's
daughter Sarah, 8, was in Mary Winsett
Schmidt's daughter Ewing's wedding in
Amarillo. Ann Venable Rodgers was there
too.
Meri Hodges Major and young Walt
visited with Joy Parker Eldredge and family
in the North Carolina mountains. Meri's fall
was kept busy with Louise's debut in Rich-
mond at Christmas. Joy's daughter Lisa
graduated in engineering from Tulane and
was being actively persued by several cor-
porations. Clark is in engineering at Ransom.
Sue Basselt Finnegan has sons at Yale and
Union. The whole family had a trip to Italy.
Sue has her own business — Elmwood In-
teriors, and she's on the board of the Nat'l
Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood
Centers and on the Nat'l Advisory Committee
for Project VIE of the Junior Leagues of
America.
Joan Potter Bickel writes of their trips
(mostly bad weather) to Puerto Rico, Las
Vegas, Miami, and Virginia. They have added
a greenhouse to their home. Mary Ann Robb
Freer has had trips to Hawaii, Williams-
burg, and New Brunswick for a color presen-
tation and ceremony for Rome's old RCAF
unit from WWII. Sally Bumbaugh says the
Jersey Shore real estate business is brand
new since the opening of the casinos in At-
lantic City. Martha Dabney Leclere has
started teaching Spanish at Hampton Roads
Academy and going for her Masters at
William & Mary. Their youngest of five is
in school now. Kitty Willcox Reiland has
moved from Chatham to West Barnstable on
the Cape. Leta Patton Badgett has a new
home in Dallas as does Faith Aldrich Wycoff
in Manchester, MA. Our traveling Nunn,
Betsy Kennedy, has moved again — from
Lexington, KY, to Guilderland. NY. We
Kruckes are all fine. Carl likes his job and
schooling at the Naval Shipyard very much
— it was worth the wait. We've added another
room and bath to his end of the house so
that he has practically a separate apartment.
Kurt came home from Clemson in March with
very good grades but very unhappy. He'll
go back to school here in the fall. He worked
at Middleton Place plantation until June
when he took a six-week European trip —
going over on the QEII. After a business trip.
Bill met him and they hiked for three weeks
in Germany, Austria, and England. Kurt's
house painting now. John enters high school
this year — he's taller than I! He went to
band camp at Furman U. and has a job now
as a soda jerk in a little old fashioned drug
store in Summerville. Bill and I had a nice
trip to England and Scotland last fall. I am
volunteer guide at Middleton Place House
now and love it — I find myself becoming an
anachronism. My summer is very busy as co-
ordinator for our pool, its staff, membership,
guests, and huge swimming lesson program.
The spring art shows were good to me again
and I've been asked to do a one-man show in
the Camden, SC, art museum after Christmas.
Please start assembling family photos —
and "priceless" memory pictures of our col-
lege years for our reunion scrapbook. Even
if, as we hope, you plan to come, we want
everyone in the book. I'll send a reminder
later. You'll also be contacted about a class
gift — a 25th reunion tradition. We're looking
forward to seeing EVERYONE there!
1958
Fund Agent
Stephanie Butan Profaci (Mrs. I.J.), Walnut
Point Farm. Chestertown, MD 21620
Olivia Benedict Maynard, Flint, MI, is
vice chairperson of the Michigan Democratic
Party. She obtained a B.A. at George Wash-
ington U. and an M.S.W. at the U. of Michi-
gan School of Social Work in 1971. She is
active in NASW. politics and civic organiza-
tions and enjoys outdoor activities — sailing,
skiing (both kinds), racquetball, tennis and
camping. She has a daughter, 19, and two
younger sons.
Lee Brown Billingsley, who finished her
B.A. at Wheaton College and received an
M.Ed, at Harvard, lives in Rye, NY, with
husband Jim, an executive with A.T. and T.,
and their four children. Lee stays busy with
PTO, tutoring. Christian Education Com-
mittee, music, skiing, and tennis.
Mary Louise Burette Woolsey is the second
woman in the 350-year history of Hampton,
NH, to be elected to the Board of Selectmen.
The AAUW has been of great encouragement
to her, and she has also been active in Girl
Scouting and PTO. She has two sons, 13 and
7, and two daughters, 11 and 8. Husband
Charles is retired.
Mary-Lane Bryan Sullivan. John and their
three children live in Cleveland Heights. OH.
where John is an attorney and Mary-Lane is
an occupational therapist, at present working
in pediatric rehabilitation. She is active in
art-oriented groups (Cleveland Museum of
Art, Print Club, etc.) and she and John share
a passion for travel. They made a brief trip
to SBC for Reunion.
Joan Cabaniss Harrison and her dentist
husband have three children, the oldest of
which has finished his freshman year at
Hampton-Sydney College. They live in Bir-
mingham.
Claire Cannon Christopher, Winston-
Salem, continues to serve on boards con-
cerned with mental retardation and mental
health, plays tennis, teaches Jr. Great Books,
and attends poetry workshops at Wake Forest
U. She and her husband, who is with R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co., have three children
— John, 16, and their "Irish twins." Ashley.
11, and David, 10.
Alexandra Carpenter Cole is very active
in the Episcopal Church, serving on the Altar
Guild and the Ecumenical Commission for
the Dioceses of Newark and attending a
Covenant Consultation with the Roman
Catholic Archdiocese of Newark in May. She
is also a member of the League of Women
Voters, and thanks to sons, 9 and 11. active
in PTA and as a Cub Scout den leader. Her
husband is an associate professor of mechan-
ical engineering at Stevens Institute of
Technology.
Lee Cooper van de Velde is concerned with
community organizations in Philadelphia —
when she's not busy being a mother to five,
the oldest of whom is at Kenyon and the
next at Emerson. Her husband is executive
director of the Chester Development Office.
Lynn Crosby Gammill returns to the cam-
pus from time to time in her role of chairman
of the SBC Friends of the Library. She is also
president of the Hattiesburg (MS) Civic Arts
Council and interested in art collection, ten-
nis, travel and the Episcopal Church. Her
husband Stewart is president of Interpine
Lumber Co., an&they have three children.
Susan Day Dean went to graduate school
(after working eight years in NYC) at Bryn
Mawr and now teaches English and American
Lit. there two-thirds time as an assistant
professor. Husband Tom is an associate pro-
fessor of religion at Temple U.. and they live
in Swarthmore, PA, with their children 8 and
5.
Carol Dennis Fielding graduated from the
U. of N.C. and received an M.A. from the U.
of San Francisco. In 1970 she and her hus-
band Ted, a retired Captain, USN, moved
to a ranch in northern California (Igo), where
she has become active in Grange and learning
how to ranch. She has three grown step-
children.
Louise Frances Durham Williams, hus-
band Harold and two children live in Rich-
mond, where he is with First and Merchants
Bank. After leaving SBC, she got a B.S. in
Education at U.Va. and is now involved in
work for Jr. League, Historic Richmond
Foundation, Retreat Hospitals, Richmond
Symphony and Garden Club. She enjoys
tennis.
Sandra Elder Harper writes that she has
an insatiable yearning for travel — a fortunate
bias, since she and her Navy Commander
husband are stationed in Naples. She also
teaches quilting (her "present consuming
passion") to other NATO wives. After a
B.A. from George Washington U., she re-
ceived an M.A. in art history from California
State U.. San Diego.
Alice Eller Patterson is an attorney in
Winston-Salem, after having received a J.D.
at Wake Forest U. in 1976. She is active in
Jr. League and church work and keeps fit
through tennis and running. She has a 15-
year-old son.
Elizabeth Lee Gallo Skladal is an ele-
mentary teacher in Anchorage, AK, where her
husband George is a lawyer. Their older son
has finished his freshman year at Texas A.
and M., and the younger, 12, is a violinist.
Elizabeth is also involved in a variety of
musical activities.
Judith Louise Graham Lewis, Charleston,
WV, is an RN, and husband James, an
Episcopal minister. They have four children,
including 14-year old twin girls.
Ina Hamilton Hart finished her B.A. at
Tulane U. and is now involved in church,
school, and sorority work in Shaker Heights.
OH, where her husband Bob is an attorney
in the Law Dept. of the City. They have three
children — 14, 12, and 7.
Catherine Hill Loth, after living for seven
years of her married life in Venezuela and
Chile, is now in Barrington. RI. where hus-
band Bilhard is a financial consultant. They
have three children.
Nancy Jane Imboden Spears and husband
Richard Lee live in Clinton, MD. Their
daughter Brenda is 17.
Sally Kendall Bundy is a realtor in Beau-
mont. TX, where husband Howard is a
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She Began With a Box Camera
Emma Kyle Kimpel '50, daughter of Emma Adams
Kyle '21, is a professional photographer with the
Warwick, NY Advertiser Photo News, covering sports,
accidents, fires, meetings and changing scenes in a rural
community. "As a youngster I began snapping pictures
with a simple Brownie box camera. I remember in
physics class at SBC that we made our own "pin-hole"
camera. I've always enjoyed art and painting but shifted
my eye from the canvas to the lens because for me the
camera is better than the brush in expressing my artistic
interest." An economics major, Emma did the art covers
for The Brambler. "At that time SBC did not offer a
course in basic photography as it now does. . .1 was at
SBC when Martha Lucas was president and thus be-
came interested in international affairs, which may have
led to my marriage to Helmut Kimpel, born in Germany,
who was a political affairs consultant for the US State
Dept. We have two sons, 25 and 24, and one daughter,
20.
"I now have press accreditations at the United Nations
and have access to special sessions and to its photo
library. Cameramen at the UN must secure cameras
around their necks or else fasten them to mounts in
press booths; one time a photographer accidentally
dropped his camera down onto the floor of the Security
Council chamber, causing a scare. They thought it was
a bomb!"
Because Emma particularly likes to photograph land-
scapes we asked to see several black-white shots. Her
work suggests certain poets and we hope you like
both words and pictures. Her camera is a Honeywell
Pentox Spotmatic F; film is Kodak Tri-X.
Bredon Hill
In the summertime on Bredon
The bells they sound so clear;
Round both the shires they ring them
In steeples far and near,
A happy noise to hear.
Here of a Sunday morning
My love and I would lie,
And see the coloured counties
And hear the larks so high
About us in the sky.
The bells would ring to call her
In valleys miles away;
'Come to church, good people;
Good people, come and pray.'
But here my love would stay.
And I would turn and answer
Among the springing thyme,
'O, peal upon our wedding
And we will hear the chime.
And come to church in time.'
But when the snows at Christmas
On Bredon top were strown,
My love rose up so early
And stole out unbeknown
And went to church alone.
They tolled the one bell only,
Groom there was none to see,
The mourners followed after
And so to church went she.
And would not wait for me.
. . .But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand
And the sound of a voice that is still!
The bells they sound on Bredon.
And still the steeples hum.
'Come all to church, good people, '-
Oh, noisy bells, be dumb;
I hear you, I will come.
—Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892
— A.E. Housman. 1859- 1936
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Asleep
Under his helmet, up against his pack.
After the many days of work and waking.
Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back.
And in the happy no-time of his sleeping.
Death took him by the heart. There was a quaking
Of the aborted life within him leaping. . .
Then chest and sleepy arms once more fell slack. . .
Whether his deeper sleep lies shaded by the shaking
Of great wings, and the thoughts that hung the stars,
High pillowed on calm pillows of God's making
Above these clouds, these rains, these sleets of lead.
And these winds' scimitars;
— Or whether yet his thin and sodden head
Confuses more and more with the low mould.
His hair being one with the grey grass
And finished fields of autumns that are old. . .
Who knows? Who hopes? Who troubles? Let is pass!
He sleeps. He sleeps tremulous, less cold
Then we who must wake, and waking, say Alas!
—Wilfred Owen, November 14, 1917
One Perfect Rose
A single flow'r he sent to me. since we met.
All tenderly his messenger he chose;
Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet —
One perfect rose.
I knew the language of the floweret;
"My fragile leaves," it said, "his heart enclose."
Love long has taken for his amulet
One perfect rose.
Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah, no. it's always just my luck to get
One perfect rose.
—Dorothy Parker, 1892-1967
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division manager for Con-Select, Inc. The
oldest of their three children is a freshman
at the U. of Texas.
Having received an M.Ed, at Cornell U.,
Edie Knapp Clark is a science teacher in
Portland. OR. She and Roger, a research
and development technician with Energex,
LTD., and their two teenage sons live in
Beaverton.
Laurie Lanier Samuels has embarked on a
new career as Director of Volunteer Donor
Programs at the Shreveport Regional Blood
Center. Son Ben's high school graduation
kept her from attending reunion. He is now
attending L.S.U. in Baton Rouge.
Cornelia Long Matson is Director of
Development for the YWCA of the City of
New York. She enjoys trips to a recently
purchased place in Long Boat Key, FL, and
has recently taken up golf. She has three
children, as does her stockbroker husband.
Cecia Loving Richeson, Madison Heights,
VA, is a substitute teacher, is active in church
work and H.S. Band Boosters, and enjoys
needlework, crafts and tennis. Husband
Charles is manager of quality control engi-
neering for Babcock and Wilcox in Lynch-
burg, and they have three daughters, the
oldest of whom is a sophomore at SBC.
Ruth Mackie Gabay, after teaching four
years, now does only substitute teaching and
tutoring, plus Christian education, in order
to devote herself to her family. She and Ken-
neth, an IBM marketing representative,
have four children. Ruth is also active in
LWV and a French group.
Linda MacPherson Gilbert's husband has
recently become president of Eureka College
in Illinois, and she is active in the Eureka
Christian Church. AAUW and College
Women's Club and enjoys swimming. They
have three children.
Elizabeth McCutchen Williams, Columbia,
SC, is working on an M.A. in English at the
U. of South Carolina and also finds time for
tennis, running, reading, sewing, knitting,
and cooking. She and husband John, a lawyer,
have three children.
Carol McClave Mercner, West Chester,
PA, holds three part-time jobs — in book-
keeping, public relations, and writing. She
and her husband Richard, regional industrial
sales manager for the LOF Co., have two
daughters, both at Penn State.
Julia McCullough Shivers is in Atlanta,
letting her three teenagers raise her, she says.
The oldest, another Julia, graduated from
Westminster with honors and was heading
for college. Olin spent the summer at the
Georgia Governor's Honors Program. Mary,
13, hoped to be a mother's helper in France.
Linda McGuire Last and husband Robert,
executive v. p. of an equipment company, have
four children, including twins, almost 13.
They live in Duncanville, TX.
Carolyn Mclvor Dews and husband Mal-
colm, manager of Fowler Roofing Co., have
three sons. They live in Virginia Beach.
Lynne Morris Barnett, her dentist husband
Walter, and her daughters, 9 and 10, live
in San Antonio. She has an M.A. from Bryn
Mawr and a long list of volunteer activites,
but skiing is her favorite past-time.
Camille Mueller Parker and husband Bill,
an oil operator, also live in San Antonio.
They have three teenagers, the oldest of whom
they hope will be interested in Sweet Briar.
Camille's interests range from Church to
charity balls, needlework to garden clubs,
with tennis and swimming for exercise.
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June Neighbors Morton says three teenagers
take more time and worry than three babies
did and she has retired temporarily from
everything. She, jeweler husband Ted and
their two sons and daughter live in Fort
Worth. TX.
Joan Nelson Bargamin, Richmond, shares
her husband Paru's professional interests. He
is an insurance claims attorney, and she is a
law firm investigator for personal injury case
claims, having had paralegal training. They
have two sons, 14 and 15. Joan has been in-
volved in church, symphony, civic associa-
tions and woman's clubs, but family illness
has curtailed her activities. She is also un-
able to serve as class secretary, the office
she was elected to at Reunion — without her
consent.
Ethel Ogden Burwell and John, a manager
with the Chrysler Corp., live in Grosse Pointe,
MI. They have three children, the oldest of
whom is a member of the Class of '82 at
Sweet Briar. Ethel plays tennis and is an
active volunteer in many areas, mostly related
to her children.
Jane Elizabeth Oxner Waring, husband
John, and three children live in Charleston,
SC, where he is in investments. Jane is serv-
ing on the boards of the Charleston Museum
and of Comprehensive Emergency Services
for Charleston County. She is a former Jr.
League president.
Val Parker Storms and attorney husband
Cliff live in Cos Cob, CT. Val has three child-
ren, and Cliff, two. Val missed reunion be-
cause of a conflicting two-week trip to Europe.
Betty Anne Phillips Sanford and Bill,
Lynchburg, have five children, including
19-year old twins. Bill is regional manager
for Olan Mills, and Betty stays busy with a
hobby business (fabric handbags) and church,
club, and school work — including SBC
Alumnae Club. She and Bill are frequent
travelers on SBC Alumnae trips.
Ann Plumb Duke's husband is a U.S.
Navy chaplain in San Diego, and they have
three children. Ann's interests include PTA,
Red Cross swimming, and Spanish.
Sue Rosson Tejml has just opened her own
law practice in Bay City, TX — a proud oc-
casion for her 16-year-old daughter, her
69-year-old mother, and her 90-year-old
grandmother, all of whom helped her address
announcements for the opening. Her hus-
band Emil. plant manager of the Celanese
Chemical Co., and their sons. 14 and 6. are
equally proud and supportive.
Caroline Sauls Shaw and Robert have a
one-year old son, welcomed, no doubt, by her
9-year old Alex. As music director of the At-
lanta Symphony Orchestra. Robert does much
traveling and Caroline often accompanies
him.
Elaine Schuster, attorney at law, is the
first woman to be a member of the Board of
Adjustment of Oklahoma County. She lives
and practices in Oklahoma City, and in ad-
dition to her law degree, she has an M.A. in
economics from Oklahoma U.
Adele Scott Caruthers continues her work
in occupational therapy in the Infant Stimu-
lation program and serves as a lay reader in
St. Andrews Episcopal Church and as a Girl
Scout leader. She. her husband Blake, a pro-
gram analyst, and their two children live
in Wellesley, MA.
Gertrude Sharp Caldwell, a Vanderbilt
graduate, is very active in the work of the
Tenn. Fine Arts Center, currently serving
as the Woman Chairman of Patrons for the
$2,000,000 Fund Drive. She is also interested
in restoration projects and the collection
of antiques. The home she shares with her
doctor husband and their three children was
recently featured in Antiques Magazine.
Jane Shipman Kuntz, mother of three,
including 17-year old twins, is president of the
Peanut Publishing Corp., currently reorgan-
izing and hoping to start printing the Peanut
Press again this fall. She is also working on
the Congressional campaign for a good friend
and continuing many other activities. Hus-
band Eddie is v.p. of commercial sales for
a firm of realtors.
Betty Rae Sivalls Davis and husband Paul
live in Midland, TX, where he is executive
v.p. of First Savings and Loan and she is
president of the Women of the Episcopal
Church and senior adviser for Girl Scouts.
She also enjoys tennis and aerobic dance.
They have a daughter and a son.
Stephanie Sparger Hanbury and husband
Harry are both in advertising in New York
City — she as senior writer/associate producer
and he as TV/syndication media coordinator.
She still loves sailing.
Polly Sykes Treadwell, husband Dick,
and their four children live in Ross, CA, where
he is a portfolio manager. Patty is SBC
Alumnae chairman for Region X and is active
in Jr. League and on Parents Association
Board.
Beedy Tatlow Ritchie enjoys tennis, golf,
skiing, and paddle tennis and watching her
three children perform in all sports. She says
she also is a volunteer nut — for Jr. League,
Antique Show, Book Fair, PTA, etc. Hus-
band Dick is executive v.p. of Union First
National Bank, Washington, DC.
Lanny Tuller Webster and Billy, who live
in Greenville, SC, have two children in
college — Billy, a senior at W and L and
Elizabeth a sophomore at SBC.
Patricia Williams Twohy and husband
Edward are real estate brokers in Richmond.
She is a Jr. League sustainer and works in the
Episcopal Church and on behalf of the Col-
legiate Schools, where their two daughters
are students.
Winifred Winter Cocke and husband
Bartlett, both U. of Texas graduates, and
their three children live in San Antonio, TX.
He is a general contractor, and she is an
active volunteer, serving on the executive
board of the Diocese of the Episcopal Church
and the Good Samaritan Center Board, work-
ing for family Services, United Way, and Jr.
League. She is also interested in the arts —
ballet, music and art exhibits.
Letha (Lee) Wood Audhuy is an assistant
professor (maitre-assistant) in American
Studies at the U. of Toulouse. Having ob-
tained the Licence in English, the Diplome
d'Etudes Superieures, and is working on the
Doctoral d'Etat. She enjoys tennis, skiing
and gardening and belongs to an ecology
group. She and husband Patrick, a manage-
ment consultant, have two children, 5 and 3.
Dotsie Wood McLeod, physician husband
Alex, and two children, 9 and 5, live in Nash-
ville. Dotsie is on the S.B. Alumnae Board
and Symphony Guild Board, is chairman of
the RIF progrm and active in Colonial Dames.
She enjoys tennis, sewing, gardening, and
needlepoint and helps Alex keep the Clan
McLeod in order while he is president.
Elizabeth Worrell Coughlin is Director
of Development and Public Affairs for the
Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA. She is also
involved in political campaigns on the local,
state and national level, since her husband
Lawrence is a U.S. Congressman from Pen-
nsylvania. They have three teen-age children.
1962
Secretary
Anne Allen Symonds (Mrs. I. Taft). 11 West-
lane, Houston. TX 77019
Fund Agents
Alice -4/Zen Smyth (Mrs. Ross J.), 2631 Bever-
wyck Dr., Chariotte, NC 2821 1
Barbara Ross Goode (Mrs. David J.), 4311
Belknap Rd., Charlotte. NC 2821 1
Birth
Douglass Dockery Porteous, 2nd child, 1st
daughter, Alexandra Keith. Sept. 20, 1977
Marriage
Cary Lamond Dillon to Tony Lynch, Mar. 31,
1977
Marjorie Schramm Holbrook. husband
Ray, and daughters Crickett and Elizabeth
moved to Pleasantville. NJ, from Columbus,
MS, in June. Ray is associated with Atlantic
City Broadcasting. Marjorie mentioned that
Crickett enters college this fall. Is she our
first offspring to do so? It has been suggested
that with children going to prep schools and
colleges many could be at the same place
and not know their mothers were SBC class-
mates. Please keep me posted and in turn
I will keep you informed. For instance, Alice
Allen Smyth, Ann Rilchey Baruch, May Belle
Scotr Rauch, and Patsy Carney Reed have
their sons at Camp Carolina this summer and
Alice's and Ann's girls are at Camp Yanoh-
lossee, both camps in North Carolina.
Alice also wrote that she, Ross, and children
spent spring vacation with Chloe Fort Lender-
man and her girls in Florida. Chloe, Rosalie
Smithy Tallman and Chuck went to Spoletto
Music Festival in Charleston last spring. The
Tallmans bought a farm in France recently.
Alice has bought in as a partner in an antiques
has bought in as a partner in an antiques
shop, spending two days a week tending
store. She also frequents NYC on buying
trips. Last fall she helped Ann Ritchey
Baruch choose a secretary for her house which
was on a Christmas house tour last Christmas.
Barby Ross Goode and Alice are happy to
report 48% participation in class fund giv-
ing.
Betsy Cate Pringle lives in Columbia, SC,
where Johnny teaches at the University.
Alice reported that he has recently published
a textbook in his field. Katsy Webb and Hugh
Ragsdale's two sons are ranked tennis players
in Alabama. Katsy works in their club's
pro shop. Hugh, who teaches history at the
U. of Alabama, also has a recently published
work.
Katie Crommelin Milton has her doctorate
in Anthropology, bases herself in NYC, has
recently been in the Far East, and at time of
press was pondering a teaching job at Berke-
ley. Brooke Hamilton Cressall received her
Masters in Early Childhood Education and
last year taught remedial reading. Betsy
Share Gross graduated from Simmons Col-
lege in Boston and begins work on her masters
in the fall. Ann Houghton Carpenter is cur-
rently working on her masters at George
Mason U. in Special Ed. Jane Roulston
Schottker received her Masters in Social
Work from Commonwealth U. in May.
A one-night trip to Washington, DC, in
June included a fast Bloody Mary with Adele
Vogel and Parker Harrell at Rue Wallace
'61 and Ardon Judd's house. Adele got her
Masters in Sociology in June and has decided
to forsake work and go for her doctorate full
time in the fall. Parker has his own executive
search firm and a small company as well.
Betty Thomas Chambers also lives in Wash-
ington, needs a dissertation for her doctorate
in French, and teaches at George Washington
U. Her husband is a lawyer. Adele Shinberger
Smith has a Masters in Social Work and
works at the Bunker Hill Mental Health
Center, an affiliate of Massachusetts General
Hospital. Back in Norfolk. VA, is Lydia
Taylor de Sotomayer who has completed her
first year of law school at William and Mary,
first in her class!
The Alumnae Office sent me a clipping
on Anne Parker Schmalz from the New Haven
Register, Jan. 1, 1978, detailing her successful
"Horticultural Curators." In addition, she
works part time for Lexington Gardens, Inc.,
a division of Pepperidge Farms, in their green-
house and wholesale division. Cynthia
Vaughan Urfer and husband have left the
Big Apple for Willow Brook Farm in Morris-
town, NJ. Lucy Lisle Coombs and her three
children are living in Washington, DC.
They spent the summer in Duxbury, MA.
Cary Lamond Lynch married an Irish-
man. She is working as an agent for Equitable
Life of New York and living in Mission Viejo.
CA. From the Bay Area of California Mary
Sturr Cornelius writes she was Provisional
Chairman of the Jr. League last year and also
volunteered for the Lincoln Child Center.
Also in San Francisco is Gwen Weiner, who
is painting portraits in addition to doing her
interior designing. She is a member of ASID.
Julilette Anthony is working at Compuneties,
an educational film company in Beverly
Hills and has taken up hang gliding over
the dunes of Santa Rosa! Suzy Shiniek lives
in Beverly Glen, CA, dabbles in real estate,
writes and illustrates. She recently had a
drawing in the New Yorker.
Adeline Kamke Cook lives in Crystal Lake,
IL, where she's active in community, school,
and AAUW, of which she's a past board
member. She is painting and enjoying an
antiques study group and had organized a
study of artists and paintings for the public
schools. Close to Chicago, she'd like visitors.
Elizabeth Farmer Owen is the new president
of the Alliance, the volunteer group at the
Louisville Museum, a big undertaking with
500 volunteers involved, many of whom are
SBC alumnae. Ginger Borah Slaughter at
Atlanta's Bureau of Planning is involved
in parks and recreation planning, is active
in the Georgia Conservancy, and explores
state parks with David, 12.
Beth Johnson Phillips and Jim have moved
into their new house in Maryland which Jim
designed. He has a busy practice in ortho-
pedics, does research, and takes violin with
their oldest daughter Angela. Beth studies
cello and is on the board of the sailing club.
Both are still racing. Beth on their boat,
Riever. and Jim on a boat he owns with three
others. Martha Baum Sikes' husband is in
the international freight container business
in Cornelia, GA. Martha is teaching French.
Spanish, and English on the high school level
and has lately won two local tennis tourna-
ments. Matthew is 8 and Suzanne. 7. Puddin
Newberry Coons has moved to Las Vegas,
NM. a small community she likes very much.
Her three children. Richard, Anna, and
Edward, spent the summer in camp in Texas.
She reported Virginia Ready McKeel and
family are in St. Louis and Loti Kennedy
Savage has a dress shop in Alexandria.
Jocelyn Palmer Connors and family have
moved into their new home, which overlooks
the Blue Ridge Mountains, and report it's
great fun to have room for the horses. Mina
Walker Wood, our landscapist, went to
Roanoke and helped Jocelyn layout her gar-
den. Mary Brush Bass has a new shop in
Winston-Salem called the Tack and Tweed
which handles all kinds of riding gear and
attire.
Louise Durham Purvis was hoping to rent
her house for the British Open — she, John
and a Cordon Bleu cook doing the cook,
maid, butler, chauffeur bit. Anyone interested
for the next British Open at St. Andrews
write Louise. The Purvises were spending the
remainder of the summer in Charlestown.
Fran Early has plans for three weeks in
England and Scotland in October. She was
in California last spring and has spent week-
ends travelling in Texas. Fran's picture and
comments were recently in a Houston paper
in an article on weather comparisons between
the North and the South. Nancy Lord Guthrie
has moved to Amsterdam from Dublin. Her
husband is with Bank of America. They lived
in London before Dublin.
Douglass Dockery Porteous has been busy
during the King Tut Exhibition in New
Orleans with Chloe Fort Linderman, Gloria
Mederer and Wilby Coleman, and Allison
Moore and Tom Garrott in town. Douglass
is Regional Chairman for the Metropolitan
Opera National Council. This job takes her
to NYC several times a year. Allison Moore
Garrett's son Murray, 12, is deep into
violin, studying by the Suzuki method, and
has played in Carnegie Hall, for the Presi-
dent in Washington, and in Atlanta. He is
a superb tennis player as well.
Mary Layne Shine Gregg is getting her
degree in Psychiatric Nursing. Ann Percy
is Curator of Prints at the Philadelphia
Museum of Fine Arts. Betsy Pearson Griffin
was Chairman of Nominating for the Jr.
League and is currently pursuing a job in
the field of city planning.
Andrea Denison met Jack Wechsler in
Dec. '74 and married him shortly thereafter,
giving up her criminal law practice which
was too time consuming to contunue. She
became Senior Legal Editor of Prentice-
Hall's Practicing Attorney's Letter but also
did writing and research in other fields,
including travel and food. Andrea has recently
resigned from Prentice-Hall to free lance,
has an arrangement with Houghton-Miffin
to do children's dictionaries, and has given
up her workaholic (self described) past life
for a leisurely 40-45-hour week. In marrying
Jack. Andrea inherited four grandchildren,
ages 6 mos. to 9 yrs., and does not relish
being called "Grandmother"! Andrea's letter,
unfortunately, has been condensed into a
peanut shell. Living in Hackensack, NJ.
the Weschlers are househunting, with the
Lynchburg area a prime consideration.
For those who claim I have ruined their
address books, be happy to know the Symonds
have reached their final destination, moving
back to Houston in January. Taft has set up
the Symonds Trust Co., bought into a steel
importing firm, and gone into the offshore
catering business. He's busy. We had two
weeks in the Far East, where I was reunited
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with my SBC chums of five years before, Katie
Mendelson McDonald '60, Marilyn Dreesman
Chuang '61. and Min Ho '60. Katie and Mari-
lyn are still in Hong Kong, and Min lives
in California with three children and her
husband, a heart surgeon. We had two days
in Seoul with Nancy Hudler Keuffel and
Gerd. who spent the summer in Princeton.
They are looking for a transfer and hoping
for a more liberated posting. To those of you
who answered my SOS postcards, I am etern-
ally grateful.
1966
Secretary
Abby Patterson Shultis (Mrs. N. Gary), Horse-
shoes House, Saunderton, Aylesbury, Bucks.,
England
Fund Agent
Martha Madden Swanson (Mrs. David H.),
7970 Community Dr., Manassas. VA 221 10
Births
Robert Jan Blakely, 2nd son, to Cindy Michel
Blakely and Robert, Jan. 21, 1977.
Benjamin Harrison Ward to Delia Harrison
Ward and Donald, May 9, 1977.
Lucinda Ashley Myers, 2nd daughter, 3rd
child, to Peggy Gilmer Myers and Sammy.
May 27, 1977.
Justin Butler Bishop, 1st child, to Nancy
Schmitt Bishop and Robert. June 1, 1977.
Adrian Mitford Massie, 1st child, to Ellie
Gilmore Massie and Robert, June 22, 1977.
Robert Ward Stern, 1st child, to Anne Ward
Stern and Edward, Dec. 8, 1977.
Jotham Thomas Johnson, 2nd son, to Gracie
Butler Johnson and Jo, Feb. 25, 1978.
Laura Davidson Spratley, 2nd daughter, to
Laura Saunders Spratley and Vernon, Mar.
24. 1978.
Greetings from abroad! We moved to
England on fairly short notice last summer,
just about the time Class Notes were due.
Standing in the queue to have my passport
checked, I ran into Pat Gromel Young, who
was hoping to find a place in Chelsea while
Tom is here with Mobil. 1 adore living in
England, and we are in the country about an
hour from Heathrow airport and would love
any visitors. Some of the news I am passing
along may be old, but if everyone will drop me
a note at Christmas, I will send out a letter
early in February and get us all caught up!
Judy Baker DeSouza is still living in Rio de
Janeiro and would love some visitors. Her sons
Jamie and Boiling are growing fast and
"becoming very Brazilian."
Gracie Butler Johnson and her husband Jo
earn the prize for constant note writing and
keeping me up to date. Their son Alexander,
our re-union mascot, enjoys his baby brother.
Jo is volunteering time with the local fire
department, and Gracie completed Cardio-
pulmonary Resuscitation training and volun-
teers time with the First Aid Squad. Over the
past several summers, she has been coaching a
very successful Little League team. Gracie saw
Bitsy Taggart Fitzimmons at their boarding
school reunion in April. Gracie has also been
active in church affairs and is working hard
with the PTSA Environmental Education
Committee.
Tia Campbell McMillan and Bob moved
back to their hometown, Charleston, WV, last
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winter. They are busy with their three
children, Julia, Andrew, and Tyler, and with
the building of a new house.
As of last summer, Lin Campbell Doscher
was finding New England fascinating. Having
survived the winter, she was busy as Executive
Director for Planned Parenthood in her area.
Nancy Conkle Swann and David have
moved to Winston-Salem, sadly leaving
Morganton and the mountains. They have two
sons, Chris and his new brother Andrew.
Randy Cutler Maw and Michael are busy.
In between the activities of Elizabeth and
Carlyn, Randy is teaching at N.Y.U.
Evie Day Butler is busy with her three sons,
Geoffrey, Lee, and Willie, and active with the
Jr. League. Heading the Child Advocacy Com-
mittee, she and Geoff have been busy with an
addition to the house.
Vi Gravure Patek and Mark and their three
daughters, Sarah, Shelia, and Emily, enjoy the
large lake near their home year round:
skating, swimming and sailing. Vi is teaching
French part time and is able to see Ruth
Schmidt Igoe frequently.
Sally Greene Ansell and Sam love the life in
Mobile, where Sally is teaching seventh grade.
Gail Harrison Gregson reports that she, Ed-
ward, their two daughters, two dogs, and
many horses are all alive and well in Santa
Monica!
Holly Hemphill Cramerus and Pieter are in
Berlin. Holly has bought a new horse and is
working on her German almost as busily as
her riding.
Peggy Henning Minnick stays busy with her
daughter Linden but saves time for paddle
tennis and Jr. League.
Sheila Mahoney has been appointed assis-
tant to the deans of the School of Medicine
and Dentistry at the U. of Rochester, where
she had been academic counselor in the
Career Services and Placement Center. Sheila
has done graduate work at Stanford U. and
Middlebury College.
Anne Mercer Kornegay and Barney love
Baton Rouge, where his CPA practice con-
tinues to grow. Anne is busy with her chair-
manship of the La. Statewide Health Co-
ordinating Council and Jr. League and reports
that Bitsy (7) is in the full swing of reading and
preparing for SBC; Bryan (5) is building and
fishing, and Blair (2) is anxious to ride the
school bus.
Randi Miles Long and Herb have moved to
New Brunswick, Canada, for a few years' stint
with Irving Oil. They miss the Bay area, but
have found a colonial home to rent in the
quaint village of Rothesay.
Susie Moseley Helm would like more of us
coming her way in Louisville. Her son Pen
loves school and collecting, and Teddy loves
nursery school and life in general. Susie is
doing volunteer and church work and taking
piano lessons. Nelson practices law and is in-
volved in many neighborhood activities.
Kathy Mockett and John are in N.Y. and
have two daughters, Alyson and Amanda.
Kathy has been doing consulting work in data
processing and has taken up playing squash.
Jody Moore Griffin and Chuck are in Sao
Paulo, Brazil, where he is Operations
Manager for Kodak. They particularly enjoy
the interesting people of all nationalities. Jody
is teaching in one of the two American
schools, where their two children. Chess and
Carter, attend. The only problems: learning
Portuguese and coping with the traffic in a
city of 12 million!
Wick Nalle Rowland and Robert, an at-
torney, have been re-doing their house in
Houston. Wick has been teaching for eleven
years and still enjoys it.
Susan Page Ronald, who has just finished a
term as SB Bulb Chairman for Austin, TX,
has been elected President of the Jr. League of
Austin.
Andrea Pearson Pennington and Al are
really enjoying their growing law practice. The
1855 Creole Cottage they bought and have
been slowly fixing up was on the Historic
Homes Tour.
Laura Penick Felt and daughters Elizabeth
and Emily were in Virginia Beach while Bob
was the metorologist stationed aboard the
carrier John F. Kennedy. Laura stayed busy
with Wives Club activities and working with
stained glass.
Diana Rediker Slaughter enjoyed the SBC
trip to Greece a year ago and has been busy
with many civic activities, including serving on
the Advisory Board of Alabama State Welfare
Agency.
Joanna Sabalauskas Lehane. who is Senior
Counsel for the Maryland Motor Vehicle Ad-
ministration and Ass't Attorney General of
Maryland, has been working on getting her
L.L.M. in tax law at Georgetown, where she
got herJ.D. in '69.
Sandy Street Hamrick, after a year of prow-
ling libraries and archives in France, is busy
writing and teaching French at St. Louis U.
and St. Louis Community College. Sandy has
just become editor of an all-French language
publication. La Vie. which is used by French
students across the U.S.
Sachiko Takemura Kunijuki spent several
years after graduation traveling in America
and Southeast Aisa. She was married in '74
and had twin boys, Yukio and Kenneth, in
'76. They are enjoying living in Tanzania but
look forward to returning to Washington in a
year.
Sally Thomas Hoffman works as a research
aide at the Nuclear Physics Lab at U. of
Washington and teaches an occasional math
class at the community college, but she most
enjoys returning home in the evening to the
peace of their country home.
Wing Todd Sigler writes that all is well,
with the usual myriad of daily chores, no ex-
citing news, but a warm hello for everyone.
Shelley Turner is still working in London
and spends time with her family, who have
moved to Cornwall. We have talked on the
phone, but not yet gotten together for a good
visit.
Ann Ward Stern will be busy with her new
son and helping with bulbs in the Indianapolis
Club. I'm not certain how this affects her
jockey career.
Muriel Wikswo Lambert, Ph.D., has joined
the faculty of the New Jersey Medical School,
together with her husband Clark. Both are
members of the Dept. of Pathology, actively
involved in research on the biochemistry and
enzyomology of DNA with special reference to
changes in cancer. Muriel is in charge of an
N.I.H. funded program studying DNA en-
donucleases.
Judy Wilson Grant, when not entertaining
her daughter Margaret (2) with quotes from
Hamlet, valiantly strives to keep her garden
green under the Colorado sun. I should like to
swap her some of our English rain for some
sun! Judy has also been putting in time at the
Denver Botanic Gardens and with the Sym-
phony Guild.
Mary (Rab) Witts Finlay and Kirk and
their children, Kirkman and Gwanthmey, are
still happy in Columbia, where Kirk is on the
City Council. Rab is involved in more research
and administration each year, but still enjoys
teaching.
I look forward to any visitors (I'm getting to
be quite a tour guide) and lots of notes in
December.
1970
Secretary
Page Kjelhtrom Slease (Mrs. Clyde H., Ill),
906 Amberson Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Fund Agents
Joanne Hicks Robblee (Mrs. Paul A., Jr.),
567-C Connors Loop, U. S. Military Aca-
demy, West Point. N.Y 10996
Virginia Ranney, 103 Willow St., Brooklyn
Heights. NY 11201
Marriages
Dayna Kinnard to Mowahid Hussain Shah
Laura Sickman to Michael Baksa
Wallis Wickham to Richard H. Burhoe
Margaret Manson to Elliot Entis
Frances O'Connor to John Morgan
Daisy Quarm to John Paul Fitts
Mary Jane Hipp to Charles L. Brock
Births
Christopher Robert to Susan Elkins Major
Elizabeth Winter to Emmy Moravec Holt
Justin Hampton to Susan Hampton VerNooy
Stephanie Campbell to Sally Campbell Carroll
William Louis to Cathy Louis Lovell
Sara Elizabeth to Betty Rau Schewel
Emily Warren to Debbie Warren Rommel
Sarah to Barbara LaLance Kelly
Daughter to Margaretta Bredin Brokaw
Robert Terry to Jane Lewis Seaks
Andrew Blythin to Phyllis Blythin Ward
Henry to Molly Woltz Carrison
Leigh Erin to Diane Council! Sweeney
Tara Ann to Lalita Shenoy Waterman
Ann Hart to Emily Gooch Crenshaw
Daisy Quarm Fitts received her Ph.D. in
sociology at U. of Michigan and will begin
teaching at U. of Cincinnati while her hus-
band is economics teacher at Carnegie-
Mellon. She visited Maggie Cooper Tyner,
her two children, and her shop with the clever
name of "Magpie" in Clarksdale, MS.
Margaret Sharp Howell is office manager at
American Cellophane in Denver and teaches
some Italian, while Bill works with the Na-
tional Park Service in historic preservation.
Besides hiking and skiing, they are fixing up
an 1890 house they bought. Cathy Louis Lovell
reports from Atlanta that her two sons now
seem to take most of her time. Sarah Becker
is a policy analyst for the World Bank and
hopes to go on a photo safari this year. Kristin
Herzog has a new job in Dow Jones' pro-
motional dept. on Wall St. Jo Prevost is a VP
with Chemical Bank and is about to leave
for Hong Kong to help set up a merchant
bank.
Barbara LaLance Kelly takes care of
Sara while Terry is still Assistant U.S.
Attorney in Loudonville. NY. Lucy Lombardi
moved to Denver and is a sales rep for the
Brown Palace Hotel. She sees Lorie Harris
Amass and in May saw Debbie Warren
Rommel in Houston. Jane Lewis Seaks will
be taking leave from teaching next year to be
with their new son. Kathy Potterfield is
still a staff physical therapist in Charleston
and takes graduate courses and scuba lessons
in her free time. This fall Ruth Stokes will
begin Purdue School of Veterinary Medicine.
Sarah Shirley is assistant Attorney General
in Austin, TX. Barbara Brewster Miller
is administrative manager of the Lousiville
Children's Theater. Katie Harris will return
to Columbia U. this fall as one of 10 Bagehot
fellows to study economics and financial
reporting. Kathy Pinner is technical director
at Rutgers School of Arts and free lances for
New Jersey Public TV.
Cindy Cocke Hill's card got rained on be-
fore it got to me and I think she reports she
is busy with her children and the Harlingen.
TX, Junior Service League. They visited
Colorado at Christmas and San Francisco
in July.
Margie Alsop is in Kentucky working on
her masters and hopes to become a legal
interpreter for the deaf.
I have to report only that the following
moved: Suzy Yates Smith to Adelphi, MD;
Virginia Ranney to New York; Mary Pat
Cogan Rankin to a new house in Richmond,
VA; Margaret Manson Entis to Chevy Chase,
MD; Laura Sickman Baksa to Cape Cod;
Elizabeth Britton to Mechanicsville, VA;
Phyllis Blythin Ward to Anchorage, KY;
Diane Callison to Placerville, CA; and Frances
O'Connor Morgan to Atlanta. Wallis Wick-
ham lives in Chestnut Hill. MA, and is a
guidance counselor with Brookline Public
Schools, while husband Dick Burhoe is
headmaster of Brimmer and May School. Kim
Mitchell Bethea and David moved to Middle-
bury, VT. Kim finished her M.A. and teaches
seniors at Mount Abraham. David is assistant
prof of Russian at Middlebury College and
will be resident director of their Moscow
program 1979-80 in the USSR. New Bern,
NC, is now the home of Bobbie Bell McCotter,
who teaches math part-time and assists
John in his CPA practice. Susan Hampton
VerNooy and Stan are house hunting in
Santa Clara or San Jose, CA, as Stan has a
new job with Intel.
Baird Hunter now resides in Silver Spring,
MD, while working on her foreign language
education doctorate at the U. of Maryland.
Louise Hayman still enjoys working for the
Maryland Historical Trust in Annapolis.
Happy Watts Clinard takes care of her 7-yr-
old son while working for W & L and enjoys
the peaceful mountain life of Lexington. She
reports that Jarrett Dudley Henderson is
a paralegal for a Richmond, VA, firm. Betty
Rau Schewel is taking a leave from her other
involvements in Lynchburg since two children
are keeping her busy enough.
Heather Tully Click usually has a new
address at each writing and now it's Idaho
Falls. She hopes this will be more permanent
since Richard has left the Navy to work for
Westinghouse. She works in the hospital's
critical care unit as a licensed practical nurse
and will study for her RN this fall. Fran Grif-
fith Laserson is taking tennis lessons, is active
in the Junior League and will teach a cooking
course for them this fall. She and Steve hope
to move into a co-op in the near future. She
has seen Pat Swinney Kaufman in New York.
Sally Taylor's humor has not died — she says
she is "an often frantic magazine and book
publisher in the land of fruits and nuts." She
covers two of her favorite things, food and
wine, and says there's enough graft and cor-
ruption to get large free samples. San Fran-
cisco allows for all types of extremes of
insanity — she does not own a hot tub!
Frances Dornette purchased a condo-
minium in DC and is at the IRS as a tax law
specialist in the Estate and Gift Tax branch.
She saw Sandy Hamilton Bentley last spring.
Sandy and Bob have said farewell to Scotland
and are in Downington, PA — a 3'/t month
move because of a dock strike. In her spare
time, Margaretta Bredin Brokaw rides a lot
and has printed some of her pen and ink
drawings. Lydia Starnes Roberts got a BS in
computer science at Rutgers and then bought
a house in Miami. She is an analyst with
Esso Inter-America while David teaches
finance and economics at U. of Miami.
Lalita Shenoy Waterman is a quite success-
ful attorney working on the largest aviation
case in history concerning an Air India 747
disaster. She has traveled around the world
collecting data. She also has a new house in
Sacramento where her husband is an attorney
for a large defense firm. Sally Campbell
Carroll sings with a local choral group in
Cape Elizabeth. ME, and hopes to start a
freelance publication business. Tracy Savage,
who will begin W&L Law School in the fall,
was due for a visit in August. She also re-
ports that Elizabeth Wilson is setting NYC on
fire.
Dayna Kinnard Shah was married in an
elaborate ceremony in Pakistan to the son
of the former Indonesian Ambassador. Her
honeymoon was in a place overlooking Kash-
mir and the Himalayas. Since her husband
is an attorney and diplomat with the D.C.
Pakistan Embassy, she is continuing her job
at GAO. Susan Lykes Mueller will be moving
this summer to Tampa, where John will
practice law. She is working for a Tallahassee
newspaper 'til then.
Linda Edgerton Goslen has moved to
Durham, NC, Kathy Kraemer Quayle to
Spring, TX, and Joanne Hicks Robblee to
Fayetteville, NC. Wallis Wickham. May
Humphreys Fox, Connie Haskell, Tricia
Hodge Parks, Jessica Holzer LaPierre,
Schuyler Gott Herbert, Put Mundy Ebinger.
and Katie McCardell Webb attended Mary
Jane Hipp Brock's wedding in NYC. Mary
Jane hopes to begin an Italian import busi-
ness. Gin Ranney is in community develop-
ment for Chase Manhattan NYC.
Lee Giannakis Minaidis enjoys living on
Rhodes and meeting all kinds of visitors,
the most recent being the cast of a new movie,
Escape to Athens. She says Telly Savalas'
golf is better than his acting! She and her hus-
band, Vasso, travel often when he is not
managing two hotels. Lee is also very active
in the Children's Theater.
Put Mundy Ebinger is still working on her
Ph.D. in between part-time jobs. She had
an exciting trip to Egypt, Iran, Pakistan,
and India as Charley was working on a nu-
clear energy study for his consulting firm.
Emmy Moravec Holt and Bill, a gastro-
enterologist (try that one!), have settled in
Greenville, SC. She and several others are
trying to establish an SBC club there. Johanna
Yaple Zeltner is doing research on a patent
for the first vaccine against bacterial pneu-
monia and studying, slowly she says, for her
MBA. They bought a house in Westfield
where Ray is assistant county prosecutor.
Susanne Elkins Major and family have moved
to Harrisburg, PA, where James is a resident
in general surgery.
Susan Holbrook Daly and Skip have just
discovered they are to leave Ohio in December
for Edwards AFB, CA, in the Mojave Desert,
where he will be in Test Pilot School. She
has been teaching classes for the Diet Work-
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shop and taking care of her two girls. Kathy
Barnes Hendricks must be the Julia Child
of Atlanta. She went to France and London
for three weeks to take cooking classes and
is working on a book — about cuisine I assume.
She saw Molly Woltz Carrison and Becky
Mitchell Keister in Roaring Gap this summer.
Corbin Kendig is working for Baxter Labs
and lives in Chicago. Frances Gravely Frank-
stone got her masters in Instructional Design/
Educational Media and is Director of Audio
Visuals for a department of UNC. David is
a law partner and they are moving a 1910
Victorian house to another lot in the historical
district of Chapel Hill and will restore it.
May Humphreys Fox and Charlie vaca-
tioned in Mexico and the Yucatan this spring
and will have a trip to the Adirondacks this
summer. They attended Mary Jane Hipp's
wedding in New York, as did Lorie Harris
Amass. 1 saw Lorie on my spring trip to
Palm Beach and Defray. She looked marvel-
ous and she and Bill hope to move into their
new townhouse in Denver this summer. They
continue to spend time at Vail, too, and come
East when Martin Marietta sends Bill to
Cape Canaveral. I also talked to Bonnie
Palmer McCloskey while down South and she
was preparing to leave for a European skiing
trip. Joan Hennessey Wright has visited her
and she also said that Betty McKee Werlinich
and husband were now working for Chase
Manhattan in Japan. I was also in Houston
and talked to Carey Cleveland who is enjoying
being an attorney for Vinson Elkins. She
saw Ann Gateley in June. Ann is in intern-
ship in internal medicine at U. of Kansas.
Liz Smith landed in Pittsburgh on business
in January and came for a visit. She seems
to like her job at the SEC and touches base
with SBCers on her travels. Adelaide John-
ston Skoglund called in May and was going
to be nearby racing their horses. We weren't
able to get together, but she was enjoying
her life in sunny Miami and cold Minnesota.
Diane Council! Sweeney and Mike are moving
to Gaithersburg, MD, in August as Mike has
a new job with IBM.
I work for the Pittsburgh Blind Assn. and
have joined a garden club to learn about these
unknown floral specimens up north — I am
used to magnolias and box bushes! Yes, the
snow does melt long enough up here and
I will finally be able to plant some SBC
bulbs. We have a tiny country house in
Ligonier where we spend most of the summer,
and I get in lots of tennis in between cleaning,
organizing and furnishing houses, and driving
in between. The next month will bring lots
of visitors, and I am also studying to take
the real estate exam. Thanks to all the
faithful writers and Happy 30th Birthday
to everyone as it seems to be that year.
1974
Secretary
Liz Thomas Camp, (Mrs. Jack, Jr.), Handy
Crossroads, Route #1, Box 990. Newnan, GA
30263
Fund Agent
Phyllis Beck, One E. Scott St.. Apt. 1806,
Chicago. IL 60610
I want to make three brief comments before
you begin reading the annual class news. First,
30
because of administrative difficulties, there
will not be as much news as usual. The College
is switching duplicating systems and it may be
that some of you did not receive a card from
me in time. Don't worry! If you have any juicy
news, we can print an interim newsletter, or
we can cover your story in the Winter '79 issue
of the Magazine.
Second, REUNION TIME is just around
the corner. It will be Easter before we know it,
and then May is upon us. I have been getting
calls from all my '73 friends who have said
their reunion cannot be beat. I think they are
wrong; so start calling your friends and
making plans to be rolling to SBC on May 18.
Finally, if you do not find your news printed
below, it is because you sent in an unsigned
card. Please take an extra second to sign your
full name: given, maiden, and married. Thank
you.
Marriages
Elizabeth Andrews to Robert Watts. Sept. 3.
1977.
Elisabeth Burton to Stephen Douglas Rooney,
of Vancouver, July 29, 1978.
Wanda June Cronic to Gregory Dess, Sept.
1977.
Debbie Hart to Daniel M. Eiseile of Paulding,
OH, May 19, 1978.
Sandra Herring to Ed Bloomberg. June 11,
1978.
Nancy Robins Lea to James P. Houghton of
Albuquerque, NM. Oct. 22. 1977.
Virginia Nolte to Dean Rude, 1976.
Gabrielle Urbanowicz to Marvin J. Wehl, Jr..
May. 27, 1978.
Cheryl Willits to Brian H. Booth, Nov. 20,
1976.
Births
Nelson, to Christy Austin Cannon and Henry.
Charles James, IV, "Chad" to Ellen Bass
Brady and Chuck. Feb. 15, 1978.
Jennifer Lee to Cathy Bonis Pearson and
Mille.
Andrew Peter to Marcia Brandenburg Mar-
tinson and Terry. May 16, 1978.
Christopher Bryce to Bianca (Bonnie) Chro-
nowski Dixon and Dick. Aug. 16. 1978.
Brian Cassatt to Cynthia Hardy McCabe and
David, May 31, 1978.
Chase Neill to Virginia Nolte Rude and Dean.
Christopher Ross to Drea Peacock Bender and
Mark, June 13, 1978.
Caroline Whitney to Jennifer Smith Hanes
and Tom, Oct. 1977.
Claire Rachel to Cindy Sorenson Sutherland
and Dwight.
VIRGINIA:
Julie Cooper is a support investigator for the
VA Dept. of Welfare in the Lynchburg and
surrounding area. She has been modeling and
has traveled to New Orleans, Myrtle Beach,
and the New England States. Sherrie Snead
McLeRoy and her husband Bill published a
book this year entitled Passages — A History
of Amherst Co. They are working on another
one about the free Negro population in
Amherst prior to the Civil War. She is still
Director of the Amherst Co. Historical
Museum and has had reunions with Alethea
Lee and Jane Piper in NYC and Kristin
Amylon at a convention in Charleston. SC.
Cynthia Hardy McCabe is employed in the
education division (audit section) of Arthur
Young & Co., international accounting firm,
in Reston, VA.; David is in the mortgages and
real estate section of the Virginia National
Bank. Sandy and Eleanor Magruder Harris
were expecting their first child in September.
They live in Richmond where Sandy works for
a brokerage firm.
Lee Wilkinson Warren writes, "In June we
had a very meaningful happening. Ruthie
Willingham Lentz and Jay came up from Ten-
nessee to be the godmother and presiding
minister at my son Cam's baptism. We had
waited as long as we did to have the ceremony
so Jay could be the one to baptize Cam." She
recently saw Susan Sluhbs Brown and Mike
who came from Atlanta to buy one of their
golden retriever puppies.
In May '78, Karin Lawson graduated from
Johns Hopkins U. School of Advanced Inter-
national Studies and worked as a research
assistant for the World Bank. D.C. This fall
she began law school at U.Va. in the inter-
national field. Elizabeth Andrews Watts and
Bobby had a trip to Las Vegas to visit Jane
Hutcherson Frierson and Allen. Elizabeth
lives in Roanoke where Bobby has a new
position; she is job hunting.
Ellen Bass Brady and Chuck formed the
Brady Investment Corp. and opened "The
Unsinkable Sup Shop" in Norfolk, serving
subs and pizza. She is still at Virginia Na-
tional Bank and Chuck is selling insurance
and "investing."
Fondie Mangum Sanderson is assistant to
the division manager of a private firm in Nor-
folk. She is also working on a part-time basis
as a hostess and cocktail waitress at the Jolly
Ox Restaurant. Debbie Griffin Tanner is a
school psychologist in the City Schools in
Norfolk, where her husband Allen is a prac-
ticing attorney.
After leaving SBC, Cathy Robertson trans-
ferred to William and Mary, where she
received her A.B. in government in '74 and an
M.Ed, in counseling in '75. She entered law
school at the U. of Richmond and expects to
receive her J.D. in December. She is especially
interested in mental health law and has done
work for the Virginia Attorney General's Of-
fice and the Developmental Disabilities
Protection and Advocacy Office.
In Lynchburg, Nancy Blackwell has become
a partner in the Design Group, continuing her
work in advertising art.
Since receiving her master's in speech path-
ology at U.Va., Linda Hogle has been a speech
pathologist in the Louisa County Schools,
driving a "mobile unit" (carpeted, air-
conditioned bus) to seven schools to hold
therapy sessions. She spent a month in the
British Isles and the Alps last summer.
WASHINGTON, DC, AREA:
Kathy Kavanagh has recently moved to
D.C. where she is organizing fund raising
projects at the Madeira School. Elaine Mills,
who has been employed by the Anthropology
Dept. of the Museum of Natural History for
four years, was recently featured in an article
in the Washington Star as head of a
Smithsonian project to organize the papers
and recordings of Dr. John P. Harrington, a
noted anthropologist/linguist. BB Wheelock
is still working downtown for a law firm. She
recently saw Martha Holland '72, Ann Smith
and Hannah Pillsbury.
Linda Kemp is working as portfolio man-
ager in a Washington bank. She just passed
the first of three parts of the Chartered Finan-
cial Analyst Program, based in Charlottesville.
For fun, she has been taking golf lessons.
Marilynn Marshall Livingston and Bill are
busy working on their house in Falls Church.
They hope to come to Reunion.
Nancy Mortenson and Sharon Mangus are
roommates — Nancy is completing her legal
assistant requirements at Geo. Wash. U. and
has recently been promoted to Legislative
Aide in the office of U.S. Rep. Wydler. She
will be handling his committees (Science and
Technology and Govt. Operations) for him.
She visited with Checka Robbin Delle, Betsy
Roberts, and Linda Kemp. Terry Lear has
received her Master's in education from Geo.
Wash. U.
Edie McRee Whiteman finished her
museum internship at the National Collection
of Fine Arts in April and will receive her M.A.
this fall after taking her comprehensive
exams. She will continue her position with the
E.P.A. while searching for career possibilities
in a government/arts position. Mac is an
agent for N.Y. Life Insurance Co. and has
started work on an M.B.A. They had a trip to
Martha's Vineyard in August.
Mary Killorin is assistant to the Manager of
Regulatory Services at 3M Co. in DC. Her job
entails going to hearings on Capitol Hill and
meetings at various government agencies. Her
boss is the nephew of Anne Gary Pannell
Taylor. This fall she is traveling to Ireland.
Debbie Hooker Sauers and Lemon are in
Silver Spring, MD, and Debbie is working
toward certification in special ed. at U. of Md.
She teaches mentally retarded children in
Montgomery County; Lemon has taken over
sales responsibilities of the educational
market for Motorola, throughout Virginia and
Maryland.
Debbie Camalier had a cross-country trip
this summer to California by the southern
route, then to Oregon, Washington, and
British Columbia and back to D.C. She stop-
ped in Dalton, GA, to see Susan Hanger Mc-
Cormick.
NEW YORK:
Alethea Lee is working at Westchester Ex-
ceptional Children's School teaching children
who have severe learning disabilities. In her
spare time she runs, swims, dances and does
yoga. Pam Cogghill is a bond trader on Wall
St. with Mabon, Nugent and Co. Cary Thorp
Brown and Tracy have moved to NYC where
he starts Columbia's M.A. program in
English. Andria Francis is a Program As-
sociate at Professional Examination Service,
in charge of developing certification ex-
aminations for various professional organiza-
tions. "1 completed the teenage birth control
project with the Population Institute — the
results of which were aired on the . Phil
Donahue Show this spring."
In Manlius, NY, are Betsy Biggar Hellmuth
and Ted, who is a regional salesman for an
Ohio Co. that manufactures hydraulic parts.
Betsy finds herself busy being mother to their
little girl Katie, who is l'/j.
Tricia Barnett Greenburg and Phil are in
Buffalo for two years while he does a Fellow-
ship in Surgical Oncology (cancer). "Anyone
who is in the area please call me, as there is no
SBC Club!" Mary Lee Burch Weil is teaching
high school French at Port Byron, NY, and
continuing with a Master's Program at NYU
in the summer. They have moved to Auburn,
NY.
EAST:
Robin Christian Ryan is in the Interna-
tional Division at Philadelphia National Bank.
She co-managed a joint PNB-Wharton
Business School two-month advanced
management program for 27 foreign bankers.
which required lots of coordination. In August
she became administrative assistant for the
Bank's European Group.
In Boston are Jesse Stewart and Mary Ann
Reese. Jesse works as a purchasing coor-
dinator at W. R. Grace & Co. and is getting an
M.B.A. from Boston U. at night. Mary Ann is
a P. V. V. A. technician at Mass. General
Hospital. She teaches a medical terminology
course for Johnson and Wales College in her
spare time.
Connie Terhune studied economics, ac-
counting and French at the American College
in Paris this past year. Presently she is ap-
plying for a position in Eastham, MA, as a tax
and property assessor. Moi Fulton has a new
position in Vermont, after completing her
paralegal training.
Sally Brice (Lt. JG, U.S. Coast Guard) is
Exec. Officer. Coast Guard Station, New Lon-
don, CT. "My primary responsibilities include
search and rescue and oil spill clean-ups and
investigation. I am the only woman at the
station, which has approximately 72 personnel
assigned."
Kirk Coleman Lammerding and John live in
Freehold, NJ, where he has his veterinary
practice and she assists him in surgery. She
continues her riding with the Monmouth
County Hunt. Marsha Phillips, in Murray
Hill, NJ, continues to work for C. F. Braun &
Co., engineers. In May she received a pro-
motion to scheduler and became the Com-
puter Coordinator of the Scheduling Group.
She writes that she sees CeCe Kirby and that
Winton Smoot Holladay and Hap are expec-
ting their first child in Nov. '78.
Donna Callery. in New Brunswick, NJ,
received her MS in Speech Pathology from
Rutgers and is working part-time in Princeton
Nursing Home providing speech therapy for
stroke patients.
Phoebe Fisher transferred from SBC to
Tufts U., where she completed a B.S. in
pyschology. After working two years, she
enrolled in the Cornell U.-New York Hospital
School of Nursing two-year, post-college
program and completed the B.S. in nursing
this May. She now seeks experience that will
lead to certification as a nurse practitioner.
She is also a long-distance runner, having par-
ticipated in four 26-mile marathons, including
the NYC Marathon. She saw Georgie Vairo
'72 in a road race in Central Park last sum-
mer.
In Summit, NJ, Bonnie Chronowski Dixon
retired from the business world a year ago
last August but has stayed busy with a new
son, new house, Jr. League, duties as secre-
tary for the SBC NYC Alumnae Club, and
the increasing demands of running husband
Dick's repping business from their home.
SOUTH:
After an exciting year teaching mathe-
matics at SBC ("The current students are
terrific!"), Sandra Herring married Ed
Bloomberg on the deck of the Boathouse,
overlooking the SB Lake on a gorgeous
June day. During the summer she taught at
the Va. Governor's School at Randolph-
Macon, while Ed taught summer school at
U.Va. This fall she is studying computer
science at UNC-Chapel Hill and living in the
Research Triangle Park, NC.
In NC are Betsy Roberts, Sandy Taylor
and Virginia Cline. Betsy received her grad-
uate business degree from Thunderbird,
Pheonix, AZ, and is working as a financial
analyst in the International Division of First
Union National Bank in Charlotte. At the
same bank is Sandy, who is an Opportunities
Coordinator. Virginia writes that she grad-
uated from the U. of Tenn. in '74 and com-
pleted a paralegal program at Mercer U. in
Atlanta. She is presently working for the
N.C. Dept. of Justice in the office of Attorney
General, Raleigh.
Drea Peacock Bender, Jennifer Smith
Hanes, Lou Weston Rainey and Colleen
Shannon Robertson are in South Carolina.
Drea moved twice last year, to NYC and now
to Columbia, where Mark has a new position
with Nexsen. Pivet, Jacobs, and Pollard.
Drea was Assistant Manager of Marketing
of Rimmel Cosmetics, Division of ITT.
She has had reunions over the past year with
Maureen Hynes, Cindy Conroy, Sarah
Clement '75, Cathy Bonis Pearson, Nancy
Wilson Tucker '75. Jennifer is also in Colum-
bia, where Tom is a 2nd-yr. law student at
the U. of SC. In Clemson are Lou and Rip
where he attends Clemson U., getting an
M.S. in Environmental Systems Engineering.
Colleen is Activities Coordinator for the
Florence Crittenton Home for Unwed
Mothers; her husband has a family law
practice in Mt. Pleasant, near Charleston.
"Hope anyone coming to Charleston for the
Spoleto Arts Festival will look us up!"
In Georgia are Ellie Plowden and Liz
Thomas Camp. Ellie writes: "I continue to
assist Dr. Stelson, Georgia Tech's VP for
Research, as a public relations coordinator.
I help to direct the never-ending flow of
visitor's to Tech's extensive research facilities,
edit research publications, and aid in plan-
ning up-coming scientific conferences. At-
lanta will host the International Solar
Energy Congress, May 28, 1979, and Tech
will play a major role." Liz began law school
in Atlanta this fall, but her most fun SBC
event was a barbeque given in honor of our
newest member of the medical profession,
Mary Witt. Among the guests were: Ginny
Sutton, Mary, Ellie Plowden, Andrea Niles
'73, Kathryn Bingham Glover '66, Melissa
Sanders Thomas '67, and Mary Anne Cal-
houn Farmer '66. Mary Bush Burris is vice
president of a local Atlanta radio station;
her husband Woody is an insurance agent
in the Atlanta area.
Wendy White has begun law school at
the U. of Miami, FL, this fall.
Cheryl Viar Upchurch and Sam have
moved to Birmingham. AL, where Sam
practices law. Shannon is 16 mos. old. and
they are expecting a second child in October.
Still working in the management training
program at the Bank of Mobile, that little
leprechaun, Pam Reynolds, spent 16 fun-
filled days in Ireland where she enjoyed
her favorite hobby — pub-hopping. "Sept.
'77 brought a new adventure to my life. I
learned to scuba dive. It's great fun collect-
ing shells and trying to identify all the various
fish. Should be fun to see everyone again
next year at the reunion. I guess I'll have
to make sure my insurance is up to date be-
fore I get on the Piedmont grasshopper."
After clerking for Judge John D. Snodgrass
in Huntsville, Gabrielle Urbanowicz Wehl
is an attorney with the Legal Society of
Mobile County, AL; her husband, Marv, is a
member of the law firm of Tyson, Fulmer,
Tyson and Wehl. Mobile. Gabrielle and
Marv met while both were attending the U.
of Ala. law school.
Ruthie Willingham Lentz and Jay have
had a busy summer traveling to Philadelphia.
Emerald Isle, NC, Pawley's Island, SC, and
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finally to Memphis, where Jay is Rector of
St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Ruthie is busy
settling into their new house, a mere two
blocks from St. Paul's.
Nancy Hardt Winter writes, "Bill and I
are beginning our second year of residency
at the U. of Ky. This is my OB year — most
of the time to be spent in prenatal clinics,
doing deliveries, C-sections. . .We bought a
house in Lexington and we managed to re-
paint the interior. I'm working on a clinical
research project using a new drug to stop
premature labor." Also in Lexington, Colleen
Dee Butterick passed her real estate exam;
Merle is also a realtor.
Marion Van Horn Eagan quit her job in
a clothing store in New Orleans to take a short
vacation in Florida before making prepara-
tions for the birth of her second child in
August. She reported that Ann Priichett
Van Horn and Woodie have returned to
New Orleans after his internship in Roanoke,
and Ann is again a paralegal with the law
firm she worked for before moving to Virginia.
MIDWEST:
Christine Weiss is employed by Cleveland
Metroparks as a naturalist at the Rocky River
Trailside Interpretive Center; Cathy Weiss
is an educational interpreter with the Colum-
bus, OH, Zoo, since receiving her M.S. from
Ohio State U. in Environmental Biology.
Sarah Johnston Knoblauch and Michael
have moved to a colonial home in Cleveland
Heights, and this will be her third year of
teaching Montessori School. They took a hik-
ing trip on the Appalachian Trail in March.
Debbie Hart Eiseile is working as a lab
technician at Phelps Dodge Magnet Wire
Co., in Ft. Wayne, IN. She is attending Indi-
ana U., working toward a B.A. in education
and an M.A. in deaf education.
Kathy Telfer underwent serious oral surgery
during this past year and worked part-time as
a psychiatric attendant at the Ann Arbor,
MI, Mental Hospital; now, she is applying for
another master's program to the Graduate
School of Social Work. U. of Mich.
Laurie Epstein was a bridesmaid in the
weddings of Gabrielle Urbanowicz and
Wanda Cronic, in between her trips to Vail,
the Hawaiian Isles, and Seattle. At Vail
she met former President Ford and family
on the slopes. Karen Fennell is an investment
portfolio manager at the Northern Trust
Co., Chicago. She spends most weekends
showing her horse and also traveled to Colo-
rado this year. Also in Chicago are Joan Buck-
ley, a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines,
and Phyllis Becker, who sells commercial
television time for seven Metromedia Tele-
vision stations. Phyllis hoped to see Katie
Amundson when she went to California in
October.
Cindy Sorenson Sutherland and Dwight
live in Kansas City, where he is in the practice
of law. Ann Stuart McKie is their baby girl
Claire's godmother, and she visited for the
christening in July.
Jane Piper writes, "Had a wonderful time in
Africa on safari. . .the animals are fascinating
but you still have to keep your distance. The
Baboon warning cry is WAHOO. I felt like
I was back at U.VA." This year Jane has
seen Nancy Nields and Alison Irwin. Jane
has been promoted to executive assistant
of St. Louis Chapter A. I. A.
Following a two-month trip to Europe and
her graduation in May from U.VA. medical
school, Mary Witt has begun her pediatric
residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
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She writes, "What can I say about an intern-
ship? It's hard work and my body, mind and
spirit are rebelling against getting no sleep
every third night!"
After training in Medical Records Adminis-
tration at Emory U. in Atlanta, Jere Mundy
was for two years assistant director of medical
records at Georgetown U. Hospital in Wash-
ington. Currently, she lives in St. Louis and
is director of the Medical Record Dept. of
St. Elizabeth Hospital in Granite City, IL.
Susie Fitzgerald Dahl is administering the
U.S. Jaycees Foundation's million dollar
campaign; Ty is in his third year of law school
at U. of Tulsa. Also in Tulsa is Cheryl Wil-
lits Booth, where she is a Learning Disabilities
Specialist and where Brian is a junior partner
in an independent insurance agency. They are
busy remodeling the 50-year-old home they
have moved into.
SOUTHWEST:
In Houston, Meredith Thompson is a sales
associate for John Daugherty Realtors. She
is active in the American Heart Association
drive, the SBC Bulb drive, the Houston Sym-
phony, the Houston Girls' Cotillion Club,
Le Grand Fromage, and the English Speak-
ing Union. This summer she went on a cruise
to the Bahamas with Jo Ellen Lenair '76.
Dana Daniel Otero and Rick are also in
Houston, following his graduation from
Southwestern Medical School. He is doing
an internship at the Texas Medical Center.
Ann Stuart McKie is a sales assistant at
Neiman Marcus' downtown store in Dallas.
Her extensive travels in '77 and '78 were to:
Massachusetts, DC, Norfolk. Winston-Salem,
Paris and Tours (her French sister's wedding),
Santa Fe, Albuquerque (for skiing), L.A.,
Kansas City. She also had visits with Missy
Hubbard and Betsy Redwine Garner on her
trip East. Paula Hollingsworth, also in Dallas,
is still a legal assistant with Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer and Feld. She was chairwoman
for the Texans in Virginia Party for students
departing for college in the Old Dominion.
Barbara Moore is working as a psychologist
at the Counseling Center at Texas Christian
U., Ft. Worth, TX.
Cheryl Battin McKinley and husband Craig
have lived in San Antonio for a year. Cheryl
enjoys her job as an interior designer, and
Craig is a captain in the U.S. Air Force.
Living in Albuquerque are Nancy Lea
Houghton and Barbara Ashton Shiller.
Hoot and Nancy's Danville, VA, wedding
provided a great occasion for a Boxwood
'74 reunion attended by: Paula Hollingsworth.
Ann Pritchett Van Horn, Liz Thomas Camp,
Edie McRee Whiteman, Emory Furniss Max-
well, Robin Christian Ryan, Ruthie Willing-
ham Lentz, Barb Ashton Schiller, and Ellie
Plowden. Nancy says, "Enjoyed a great season
of skiing — both downhill and cross-country.
I am happy to report that all that jogging paid
off — I placed third in the women's division
of a 6.2 mile cross country ski race." Hoot
is an attorney with Modrall, Sperling, Roehl,
Harris & Sisk. In August Barb spent two
weeks with her mother visiting her British
kinfolk in England. She also enjoyed a sojourn
in Alabama with her family in Jan. '78.
WEST:
Wanda Cronic Dess and Greg are in Seattle
where he has begun a Ph.D. in Business
Administration at the U. of Wash. He is also
an instructor at their business school and
teaches graduate level courses at night for
the U. of Puget Sound. Wanda is working
on the grants and budgets program at the
U. of Wash. School of Nursing and is also
busy with decorating their new condominium.
Ann S. Benkendorff has moved from
Kansas City, where she was working at
Macy's. She is now a buyer in Denver and
was in NYC in March.
Following her graduation from Emory Law
School, Ellen McMillan is an advocate for
the Los Angeles County Bar Association's
Mental Health Advocacy Project. "Most
of my work involves advising patients at the
Metropolitan State Hospital on their legal
problems and representing them in rights'
violations cases." Julie Shuer is an occupa-
tional therapist in the rehabilitation of the
physically disabled; she published a paper
on this topic in the June issue of Mental
Retardation. She frequently sees Lisa Fowler
'73.
Jan Renne Kile is in Fresno where Bill
has recently bought a dental practice in
Clovis, a suburb. She works at his office and
has recently returned from a Hawaiian holi-
day. Blaine Converse is in Beverly Hills as
a social secretary to an actress, while at the
same time going for interviews and auditions
at various studios. She recently returned from
a month's vacation in Britain and hopes that
some future job possibilities in film produc-
tion will be the result of her visit. Following
three years of social work, Anne Florow has
moved to Sausalito to "take a change from
Texas." She will attend professional cooking
school in San Francisco.
Jeannie Manning Schmidley passed the
California Bar and is working at the Bank
of America's Corporate Headquarters Legal
Dept.'s corporate advice section; James is a
second year neurology resident at the U. of
Cal. medical center.
OFF THE MAINLAND:
Still in Paris, Vicki Bates Roy writes that
she and Daniel are hoping to move to the
U.S. this fall. In July she visited her mother
at SBC and looked for contacts for Daniel
in biomedical engineering and computer
science. Vicki has recently become a member
of the Parisian Ornithological Association.
Beth Burton Rooney and Stephen are
living in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, a
suburb of Vancouver, following their two-
week honeymoon in August to Cozumel and
Cancun, Mexico. Beth has been showing and
eventing this past year and won the Longreen
Horse Trials in Germantown, TN, on her
mare. Foxfire.
Christine Cummings Bass has opened her
own real estate firm in Anchorage, AK.
Laurene Sherlock still maintains her status
as a travel agent but is living in England this
year, training for art business at an art aca-
demy.
Alletta Bredin regrets that she will not be
able to attend Reunion. She expects to be
living in South Australia with new husband
Neill James Bell of Brisbane. Queensland.
1978
Secretary
Betsy Wood, 2204 Evergreen Road, An-
chorage, KY 40223
Fund Agent
Ann Key, 6367 Ellenwood, St. Louis, MO
63105
Marriages
Beth Cone to David G. Crumpler. July 1, 1978.
Deb Davison to Douglas M. Weidner. June 24.
1978.
Suse Hudson to Rav B. Fitzgerald. Jr.. June 4.
1978.
Susan Negaard to Mark E. Mendel. June 10.
1978.
Frances Taylor to William J. Perkert. June 3.
1978.
Engagements
Mickie Gupton to Hank McKelway
Kathy Jackson to Harold R. Howe
Debra Littleton to Ted Watson
Mo Moffett to Wade Haislip
Julie Pfautz to Mark Bodenstab
Carrie Ruda to Jack Clark
Births
James Edward. Jr. to Ginger Castle and James
E. Bickley.
Joan Bogert has spent the summer in
Philadelphia attending the Paralegal In-
stitute, specializing in Estates and Trusts. Af-
ter completing the course in late August, she
hopes to be placed in a law firm in New York
City.
Annette Bruce graduated in May from the
U. of Richmond where she majored in history.
This fall she will be attending the Atlanta
Paralegal School.
Lee Carollo spent the summer interviewing
for a teaching job and working as a medical
secretary-receptionist. She'll be going to
Claremont Graduate School, near L.A., this
fall, in order to complete a Master's degree in
Education. The program consists of night
classes in addition to actual teaching; so Lee
has accepted a position at Pomona Catholic
High School teaching chemistry and physical
science.
Cathy Cleland decided to take the summer
off and plans to look this fall for a job in
teaching or journalism, ". . . . as soon as I get
around to writing my resume . . ."!
Susan Cleveland graduated from Emory U.
last May and decided to celebrate the event by
spending August and September back-
packing in Europe! When she returns she
plans to continue her job-hunting efforts in
Atlanta or Washington, DC.
Suzanne Collins has a psychological testing
job with the U.Va. Hospital's clinics and
moved to Charlottesville in September,
(someone who does testing in the field of
psychology) in Columbia and Charlottesville.
VA. Caroline graduated from Emory last
December and worked in Charlottesville until
last May in a child care center. She is presen-
tly taking a well deserved vacation before she
begins Law School at the U. of South Carolina
this fall.
Nanette Cooper spent eight weeks in Mid-
dlesbury. VT. doing graduate studies in Fren-
ch this summer and will be in Paris during the
'78-'79 academic year completing her M.A.
She would like to encourage any SBC-ers who
might "happen to be passing through" Paris
to come see her at 32 rue Godot de Mauroy.
Paris 75009.
Alden Corrigan is working at Sulton Place,
Inc. (in California) with throughbred show
horses and has been at shows in San Diego
and Santa Barbara. She is presently looking
for a permanent position with an airline and
hopes to take some graduate courses in the
near future.
Becky Dane has hit the big time and is
presently the Executive Coordinator of the
PBS network show "Congressional Outlook"!
In other words, she chooses the issue to be
discussed, researches it, arranges filming on
the Hill. etc. She'd also like to add that she's
still madly in love with Chevy Chase (and plot-
ting to marry him!) and is trying to start a
Gilda Radner Fan Club. She'd also like to
remind all '78ers that there are only 1,643
shopping days (?) left until our 5th
Reunion — so start making plans to be there!
Lucy Darby spent six weeks in Florence,
Italy, studying Italian Frescoes and Conver-
sation Italian on the Sarah Lawrence Summer
Program. After three weeks of traveling in
Greece, she'll be returning home to do some
serious job hunting!
Liz Day is working this summer as a camp
counselor for four 10-year-old girls at Camp
Alleghany in West Virginia. She plans to be
living with Maria Rixey and Betsy Ryan in
Alexandria this fall while looking for a job on
Capital Hill.
Allison Egbert graduated from Denison U.
as an English-Writing Major. During June,
she traveled in Europe and is presently look-
ing for a job in the areas of television and ad-
vertising.
Suse Hudson Fitzgerald is working in Char-
lottesville with Hudson Insurance Agency (to
become a full partner in January!) while Rusty
is working for Prudential Insurance. "Nothing
like a little competition between husband and
wife!" They've bought a small house in
Charlottesville and have been working on it in
their "spare" time. A delayed honeymoon to
Hawaii has been scheduled for October, and
they both hope to be going to business school
in the near future.
Cecil Garcia-Tunon has been slaving away
at Adams & McClure Travel in Georgetown
since the day after graduation and is loving
every minute of it! She plans to share an
apartment with Sue Griste, who is presently
job-hunting in the D.C. area, sometime this
fall.
Gayle Gorman and Michelle Tarride will
both be attending the U. of Texas at Austin
this fall to begin working toward a Masters
degree in Music — Gayle will specialize in
"Literature and Pedagogy"; Michelle, in
"Vocal Pedagogy."
Dudie Hiemenz loved her two years at the
U. of Missouri and is working this summer at
Donovan Industrial Supply Corp. in St. Louis
while interviewing with several newspapers to
do layout work.
Susie Heitmiller, Dorothy Lear and Ellen
Quinn are all working at the Northern
Virginia Training Center for the Mentally
Retarded as Developmental Aides. Susie is
sharing a townhouse in Alexandria with Ann
Maricle, who has been working for Senator
Danforth since August, and Dorothy and
Ellen are living with Barbara Behrens (who is
looking for a job in advertising) in Fairfax.
Lookout Washington!
Eve Jackson is still working on her Alabama
teacher's certificate and hopes to be working
as a teacher's aide this fall in the Mountain
Brook School System. She recently heard from
Julie Johnston Crowley who is now happily
married to Steve Crowley and living in
Longview, TX.
Kathy Jackson. Cannie Crysler and Mary
Page spent five weeks after graduation
traveling together from the Netherlands to
Greece with Galvin Gentry '76 and had a mar-
velous time! Kathy is presently trying to
prepare for September 9, when she'll be
marrying Root, who will be a third year
medical student at Bowman-Gray in Winston-
Salem, NC. They've gotten a garage apart-
ment, which just happens to have a small gar-
den area-just the right spot for SBC tulips!
Cannie is in Philadelphia and hopes to work
for one of the many superb museums in the
city. Lynn Spilman will also be in Philadelphia
attending Paralegal School this fall.
Mary began her job with the creative divi-
sion of the Van Sant-Dougdale Advertising
Agency August 7 and will be living in
Baltimore. To all of those who graduated with
us in May, she'd like to pass along con-
gratulations and thanks to the Class of 1978
from Mr. Richards, who commends us for our
cooperation and help in making com-
mencement so successful this year — a job well
done!
Meredith John has been named one of the
32 Rhodes Scholars from the United States
and will begin two years of study at Oxford U.
this fall. She graduated this May from the U.
of Texas at Austin with a major in chemistry.
Robin Jones has spent the summer cooking
(?!). hiking, and "eating" at Nature Camp in
Vesuvius. VA, while looking forward to
teaching 4th grade this fall in a small country
school in Rockbridge County. She'll be living
in Lexington. She adds that Deb Davison
Weidner's wedding was a blast and that Deb
and Doug are living outside Philadelphia.
Sue King has been taking it easy this sum-
mer, resting up for her three-month stint
studying Litigation at the Philadelphia
Paralegal School this fall.
Jane Lauderdale has enrolled in the Georgia
State U. MBA program and is working harder
than ever. However, she reports that all is not
work — it seems the Atlanta crew from SBC
and W & L get together regularly to break the
monotony!
Debra Littleton will be married on Decem-
ber 2, 1978. to Ted Watson, a builder, and will
live in San Antonio, TX. Despite her degree in
Broadcast News from the University of Texas
at Austin, she has gotten a real estate license
and hopes to begin working soon.
Lu Litton is working for the Department of
the Interior. National Park Service, as a Park
Technician at Cape Hatteras National
Seashore. As a part of the "Interpretive"
Division, which offers programs to park
visitors, she is involved in programs such as
"Snorkeling," "Introduction to Surfing."
"Birdwalks," "Fishing with a Ranger," etc.
Cindy McKay is living at home and very
much enjoys her job in the Actuarial Services
Department of Blue Cross of Ohio.
Caroline McKissick graduated from Emory
last December and worked in Charlottesville
until last May in a child care center. She
began law school at the U. of S.C. this fall.
Liz Maynard will be moving in late August
into a studio apartment on the East side of
Manhattan, which she hopes to share with a
high school friend. She plans to enter a retail
buying program at a major department store
in New York City.
Cathy Mellow spent the summer as a tennis
pro at a St. Louis racket club teaching
children 8-14. This fall, it's off to Paralegal
school in St. Louis for a 9-month program,
with a trip in January to Egypt (sponsored by
the SBC Alumnae Assoc.) as incentive.
Donna Mihalik is living in New York City
and just loves her job with Classic magazine
(the Town & Country of horse magazines).
Mo Moffett will begin her teaching career
August 21. when she takes charge of the 6th
and 7th grades at Verona Elementary. In the
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meantime she's working on her future home
and planning for October 14!
Susan Negaard Mendel and Mark have
been in Lubbock. TX. since they were married
June 10. Susan is working in a hospital and
Mark is working in construction until they
both enter school at Texas Tech. in Sep-
tember. Mark will be starting Law School and
Susan will be working towards a master's
degree in Immunology while teaching Fresh-
man Bio-Labs.
Ieke Osinga participated in a three-week
training program in a yogurt manufacturing
plant in Holland after graduation, and from
there, traveled around Europe with her
brother and sister. She plans to start a yogurt
business at SBC Dairy by September 1 and
hopes to supply stores and other colleges in
the area.
Julie Pfautz has been holding down two
part-time jobs and will continue to do so until
October. After they are married, she and
Mark will live in Ginton, IA. for about a year.
Mark is working for Pullman-Kellogg. a firm
based in Houston, as an engineer.
Missy Powell and Janet Rakoczy are back at
Sweet Briar working in Admissions and
working hard — they just couldn't stay away!
Leigh Ramsay began working at U.S. News
and World Report as an editorial assistant for
the News Department in June, and she will be
moving into a cute apartment in Alexandria
with yours truly September 1 !
Katie Renaud has been taking classes at the
U. of Michigan this summer to complete
requirements for her teaching certificate. In
August she'll be heading out to either Austin
or Dallas where she'll share an apartment with
Mavis Ray and Joan Lightfoot '77 and hopes
to find a teaching position.
Anne Riordan enjoyed a two-week French
cooking class with Mme. Kuony at the
Postilion in Fond du Lac, WI. and is prepar-
ing to leave August 25 for her first year of Law
School at Gonzaga U. in Spokane. WA.
Maria Rixey is working in Washington. DC.
for the James W. Rouse & Co., Inc., a mort-
gage banking firm.
Carrie Ruda is working in D.C. for Chicago
Title Insurance Co.. doing "pre-settlement"
work, and loves it! On July 1, she was in Beth
Cone Crumpler's wedding, which, she reports,
was just beautiful! Also attending were Liz
Perkinson, Pam Jefferson, Lynde Cote '77 and
the Gilpatricks. Between weddings (Jack's
sister was married in June), Carrie's been busy
planning her own and is presently moving
Jack down to their apartment in Lexington,
where he'll be a second-year law student at W
&L.
Anne Simonds graduated from the U. of
Texas at Austin in May with a degree in Social
Work. She'll be getting married Aug. 4 and
moving to Dallas. TX, where she hopes to get
a job in her field.
Cassandra Smith is living with her grand-
parents in Oakton, VA, outside of D.C. and is
presently working at Bloomingdales. She
hopes to move into an apartment by Sep-
tember.
Julia Sutherland took a "jaunt" around
"Virginie" after graduation and saw Nan-
cyellen Keane in Charlottesville when she took
her LSAT's in July. They are planning to move
to Richmond, where they'll share an apart-
ment, at the end of August. Between trips to
Richmond with Nancyellen and to D.C. to visit
Susie and Ann, she's been working as a re-
search assistant in her father's law office.
Katherine Taylor is living in Winston-
Salem. NC. where she is in a management
training program with Wachovia Bank and
Trust Co.
Frances Taylor Perkert graduated from the
U. of Richmond in May with a degree in
History and Classical Civ. She and Bill are
living in D.C. where he'll be a 4th year med
student at Georgetown.
Ann Thrash has been home this summer
relaxing — which is fortunate, since she'll be
starting Paralegal School this fall in Atlanta!
Lisa Wray is the head counselor at Camp
Seafarer in North Carolina, where she'll be
until the end of August. In the fall she hopes
to move to New York City.
Ann Yauger has been working in a doctor's
office this summer and plans to attend the
Atlanta Paralegal School this fall. She also
reports that Claire Cartwright is about to
finish at the U. of Texas and will be moving to
San Antonio in the fall, and Libby Freeman is
job hunting in Atlanta after completing a
degree in Computer Science at the U. of
Georgia.
Michelle Youree has spent the summer lear-
ning about brokerage houses at E. F. Hutton
& Company in D.C. and will decide this fall
whether to pursue brokerage as a career.
And finally. I, Betsy Wood, am at the end of
my eleven-week Corporate Law Course at the
Paralegal Institute in Philadelphia — paralegal
school does seem to be "in" this season! I've
been working very hard, which is very
atypical of me! — and have thoroughly en-
joyed getting a taste of corporate law. I've
enjoyed living in Philadelphia and adore the
family I've been living with. Instead of going
for U. of Pa. housing, I chose to live with a
family in "Historic" Philadelphia, where I
serve as a mother's helper in my "spare" time!
After a four-day visit to Sweet Briar at the end
of August for Molly Reeb's '73 wedding, I'll be
moving to Alexandria, VA, where I'll be
sharing an apartment with Leigh Ramsay.
And I hope by the time you all read this I'll be
working in the corporate division of a law firm
in the District!
A million thanks to the people who helped
me gather news and to those who responded to
the post card. I think I voice the sentiment of
most of us when I s;iy that although I don't
especially miss school work per se (because
I'm still doing it!). 1 do miss all of you who
made Sweet Briar such a special place for me.
Good luck to each of you, and don't wait 'til
next August to write again!
Looking For A Camera?
During Commencement Day 1978. someone
left an expensive camera atop a student car
parked in Meta Glass lot. Unfortunately,
whoever left it there also left the leather case
open so that some of the ensuing hour or so
of rainfall may have damaged the camera. The
owner can claim the property by sending a
description of it (together with money for
postage) to the Alumnae Association Office.
Sweet Briar, VA 24595. Mark it to the atten-
tion of Lori Hatfield '79, who found the
camera and has been trying since May to
locate its owner.
Alumnae
Notices
Briarites at Sweet Briar
On the payroll at Sweet Briar for 1978-79
are the following SBC alumnae, according to
the President's office:
In aphabetical order:
Nancy Godwin Baldwin '57, Director of Ad-
mission
Catharine Fitzgerald Booker '47, Editor,
Alumnae Magazine
Nancy E. Church '77, Admission Counselor
Martha Mansfield Clement '48. Director of
Research. Office of Development
Julia Sadler de Coligny '34. Director of Estate
Planning
Lisa Wood Franklin '63. Assistant to the
President
Margaret Jordan Harvey '73, Assistant
Director of Career Planning
Carter Hunter Hopkins '68, Director of
Career Planning
Sandra Stella Horwege '74, Assistant in Art
History
Deborah S. Hubble '77. Admission Counselor
Julia Mills Jacobsen '45, Coordinator of
Government Relations
Jan Pettypool Johnson '74, Acquisitions
Librarian
Cynthia M. Kendree '77. Admission Coun-
selor
Aileen Laing '57. Associate Professor of Art
History
Helen Smith Lewis '54, Assistant in Office
of Public Information and Publications
Carol D. Newman '71, Instructor in Music
Priscilla S. Powell '78. Admission Counselor
Janet M. Rakoczy '78, Admission Counselor
Ann Morrison Reams '42, Director of the
Alumnae Association
Byrd Stone '56, Associate Professor of Edu-
cation
Elizabeth Bond Wood '34. Vice President for
Development and College Relations
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Recent Deaths
Miss Julia Cleland AC April 27, 1978
Mrs. John R. Milligan (Carina Eaglesfield) AC
September 12. 1978
Mrs. Walter Reed (Nell Dearborn) AC July 31.
1978
Mrs. Lynne B. Greene (Susan Wilson) AC
February 1978
Miss Dorothy C. Harrison '18 May 15, 1978
Nadine Blair '19 (no date of death)
Mrs. Martha S. Coates (Martha Stevenson '20)
August 30. 1978
Mrs. Tarlton Parsons (Elinor Flournoy '22)
September 1, 1978
Mrs. B. St. George Tucker (Gwendolyn
Harris '27) May 21. 1978
Miss Julia Pollard '27 September 7, 1978
Mrs. John Franklin Ross (Evelyn Bye '29)
July 22, 1978
Mrs. Martha Lee Poston (Martha Lee '30)
August 22. 1978
Mrs. Oscar A. Mockridge. Jr. (Georgie Wilson
'30) August 26. 1978
Mrs. Robert Charles. Jr. (Dorothy Boyle '3D
May 1978
Mrs. Ralph Peters (Phoebe Rowe '3D Septem-
ber 30. 1978
Mrs. Strother Simpson (Cordelia Cunning-
ham '32 (no date of death)
Mrs. C. A. Palmer (Geraldine Snedden '38)
May 25. 1978
Mrs. Allan Adams Campbell (Thirza Trant
'45) Spring 1978
Phoebe Rowe Peters
1910-1978
Sweet Briar alumnae, especially those of
the Class of 1931 and the Executive Boards
from 1956 to 1964. will always remember
Phoebe with a sense of joy. Her gaiety, her
personal charm, her sense of delight in
people and places endeared her to all.
To her beloved college. Phoebe gave fully
of her devotion, her energy and her means.
Beginning with her position as president of
her class in her senior year, she worked for
Sweet Briar every year of her life. Time and
time again she was the local bulb chairman,
the alumnae representative on admissions
and the club president. On the national level,
she was a member of the Executive Board of
the Alumnae Association, serving as vice-
president and then president, and was a
member of the College's Board of Overseers.
In 1972. on Founders Day. she received the
Alumnae Award for outstanding voluntary
service to the College.
Alumnae who make outstanding contri-
butions to the civic, cultural and educational
life of a community bring distinction to
Sweet Briar. This. Phoebe Rowe Peters. Class
of 1931, did in full measure, and Sweet Briar
is grateful for her life.
Rebecca Marion Carroll
Many alumnae will be saddened to learn
of the death of Rebecca Carroll on Wednes-
day, September 13 in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Miss Carroll went to work in the Treasurer's
Office at Sweet Briar in October 1943 "just
to fill in" for a few weeks, and stayed until
she retired in June 1974. She and Mabel
Chipley shared a house on Old Stage Road
and were good friends to many generations
of students. We extend our sympathy to
Miss Chipley on the death of her good friend.
Old Antiques?
We're not really being redundant. The Library
has asked up to pass on to you the following
request: Please look around for back issues
of the magazine Antiques and if you can do
without any of the numbers listed below,
please send them to Miss Aileen Laing.
Chairman, Department of Art History. Sweet
Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA 24595. The
art historians are especially keen on obtain-
ing the listed numbers starting with Volumi
68.
Vol. 25 nos. 1-6 Jan. -June 1934
Vol. 26 nos. 1-6 July-Dec. 1934
Vol.27 nos. l-4,6Jan.-Apr..Junel935
Vol. 28 nos. 1-6 July-Dec. 1935
Vol. 29 nos. 1-5 Jan. -May 1936
Vol. 30 nos. 1-4 July-Oct. 1936
Vol.31 nos. 4, 6 Apr.. June 1937
Vol. 32 nos. 1, 3. 5-6 July. Sept.. Nov-Dec.
1937
Vol. 33 nos. 1. 3, 5-6 Jan.. Mar., May-June
1938
Vol. 34 nos. 2-5 August-Nov. 1 938
Vol. 35 nos. 2-6 Feb.-June 1939
Vol. 36 nos. 1-6 July-Dec. 1939
Vol. 37 nos. 1-4. 6 Jan. -Apr.. June 1940
Vol.38 nos. 3. 6 Sept.. Dec. 1940
Vol. 39 nos. 3-4. 6 Mar.-Apr.. June 1941
Vol. 40 nos. 1-4, 6 July-Oct.. Dec. 1941
Vol. 41 nos. 1-2. 5-6 Jan. -Feb.. May-June
1942
Vol.42 nos. 2, 5 Aug., Nov. 1942
Vol. 43 nos. 1-3, 5-6 Jan. -Mar.. May-June
1943
Vol. 44 nos. 1-4 July-Oct. 1943
Vol. 45 nos. 1-4. 6 Jan. -Apr.. June 1944
Vol . 46 nos. 1 -5 July-Nov. 1 944
Vol. 47 nos. 1-6 Jan.-June 1945
Vol. 48 nos. 1-6 July-Dec. 1945
Vol. 49 nos. 1-3. 5 Jan. -Mar., June 1946
Vol. 50 nos. 1-6 July-Dec. 1946
Vol. 51 nos. 2-3, 5-6 Feb. -Mar., May-June
1947
Vol. 68 nos. 5-6 Nov.-Dec. 1955
Vol.69 no. 6 June 1956
Vol. 70 no. 3 Sept. 1956
Vol. 100 no. 5 Nov. 1971
Vol. 103 no. 2 Feb. 1973
Vol. 107 nos. l-2Jan.-Feb. 1975
Vol. 108 no. 2 Aug. 1975
Vol. 109 nos. 1-6 Jan.-June 1976
Vol. 110 nos. 1-6 July-Dec. 1976
Vol. 1 1 1 nos. 1-6 Jan.-June 1977
Vol. 112 nos. 1-6 July- Dec. 1977
Vol. 113 nos. l-4Jan.-Apr. 1978
Candidate For The Board
The Executive Board of the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Association submits the name of
Catherine Cox Reynolds '49 to the members
of the Association as a candidate for election
to the Board of Overseers.
Married to Philip Reynolds, they live in
West Hartford. CT with their three children.
As a Sweet Briar undergraduate Katie was
an English major who headed Paint and
Patches, served on the Inter-dorm Council,
sang in the choir, worked on the News and
Briar Patch, and was a member of Tau Phi
and the English Club. As a graduate she has
been a Class Fund Agent, and in 1974 she was
the commencement speaker.
After graduating from Sweet Briar, Katie
worked for two years in the personnel depart-
ment of Sage-Allen, in West Hartford. Fol-
lowing this she spent two years in the Army
during the Korean War. running service
clubs in Japan and Korea. After returning to
West Hartford in 1953 she became interested
in local government and this led her to a
Masters Degree in Public Administration.
From the time of her marriage in 1957 to
her decision to run for Town Council in
1971. Katie Reynolds worked for the Demo-
cratic party at election times. She joined
the League of Women Voters and was ap-
pointed a member of the Charter Revision
Committee. She was an alternate member of
the Town Plan and Zoning Commission from
1967 to 1970. In 1971 she was elected to
Town Council and in 1973 she was elected
Mayor of West Hartford. Since 1974 she has
been a director of the Connecticut Conference
of Municipalities. Governor Ella Grasso
appointed her regional government coordina-
tor in 1977 and in 1978 promoted her to head
the urban unit in state administration. With
this appointment she now chairs the state's
Urban Action Task Force.
Other names may be added to the ballot
if they are sent to the Director of the Alumnae
Association, Sweet Briar, Va.. accompanied
by fifteen signatures of the members of the
Association, and written consent of the
nominees, within two weeks after publication
of this name as the Executive Board nominee.
Ballots will be sent to all members of the
Association, and the elected candidate's name
will be submitted to the Board of Overseers
as the nominee from the Alumnae Associa-
tion. (See page 39.)
Amaryllis make lovely pets
Amaryllis lovers resemble cat-lovers.
They pet their plants, take pictures of them,
talk to them and talk about them in superla-
tives. On the other hand, there are a few-
people who don't like Amaryllis, and that is
good, for if everybody wanted one. there
wouldn't be enough to go around.
Just in case you don't know what they are.
Amaryllis are indoor-growing flower bulbs
which produce large, showy, bell-shaped
blooms within four to six weeks after you
start them. They arrive pre-potted and all you
do is give them a little water. Their rate of
growth is amazing — you can see the change
from day to day. They come in a variety of
colors and can be encouraged to bloom from
the Christmas season to Easter, depending
upon the time you start them. One bulb will
produce from four to eight blooms.
In 1961 the Sweet Briar Club of Washing-
ton took over the management of the winter
sale of Amaryllis and Paperwhite Narcissus
as an additional fund-raising activity. Nan
Steptoe McKinley '48 was the first National
Amaryllis Chairman, and she has been fol-
lowed by Gertrude Robertson Midlen '39.
Brandon Forrest Rohr '56. Courtney Steven-
son '67. Gretchen Armstrong Redmond '55,
Betty Barnes Bird '39. Juliet Young Maclvor
'65. Sandra Vonetes '75, and Marie Vonetes
'75. Sales of these bulbs amount to between
$20,000 and $25,000 a year and eam the
same commission as spring blooming bulbs.
Amaryllis and Paperwhites are not only
fun to have around the house in the dead of
winter — they make wonderful gifts for shut-
ins, for someone who likes flowers, for
patients, clients, customers, for in-laws,
relatives, friends, and for the person who has
everything.
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Annual Fund Report
Our Report to Alumnae
1977-78
I am delighted to report that 1977-78 was
an excellent year for the Sweet Briar Alumnae
Fund. Thanks to many of you who increased
your gifts, the College met the first level of
our challenge from the National Endowment
for the Humanities. While gifts from parents
and friends were included, I hope you share
my pride in knowing that alumnae support
played a major role in raising the $393,387
needed in new and increased gifts.
A successful year does not just happen but
is the result of hard work from many people.
Special recognition should be given to the
good work of Fund Agents, Boxwood Circle
and Golden Stairs committee members, and
Estate Planning Representatives.
We have reason to be particularly proud
of our impressive gains in unrestricted annual
gifts to the College. All of us who care for
Sweet Briar must know the importance of
these gifts. They are crucial to the assurance
of a strong faculty and all the facilities needed
for an outstanding academic program.
Because we are so pleased with the perfor-
mance of our annual fund with its $34,000
increase, we have listed class totals for un-
restricted annual giving as well as total gifts
from each class. The former are the amounts
each class must exceed to meet our new goal
of $260,000 for annual giving in 1978-79.
As we begin a new fund year, let me thank
you for your past support which has earned
national recognition for Sweet Briar. Please
know that again this year your gift will count
in keeping Sweet Briar strong.
£^£^
(2&<ft&4-
Sue Jones Cansler '63
Chairman
Annual Alumnae Fund
Alumnae Fund Committee
1977-78
Suzanne/ones Cansler '63, Chairman
Patricia Traugott Rouse '48, Boxwood Circle
Chairman
Jean Gillespie Walker '54, Golden Stairs
Chairman
Tabb Thornton Farinholt '59, Golden Stairs
Co-Chairman
Carolyn Scott Dillon '57, Estate Planning
Chairman
Nancy Dowd Burton '46, Alumnae Member,
Board of Overseers
Julia Gray Saunders Michaux '39, Alumnae
Executive Board
Maud Winborne Leigh Hamlin '58, Alumnae
Executive Board
Mary Lee McDonald '65, Alumnae Executive
Board
Elizabeth Lee Clay '75, Alumnae Executive
Board
Top Ten In Participation
Unrestricted Annual Giving
These classes led the rest in participation and gifts. Our hats are off
to them.
Class
Fund Agent
Percentage
1910
Frances Murrell Rickards
100%
1912
100%
1937
73%
1938
Dorothy Nicholson Tate
73%
1942
Helen Sanford
73%
1943
Muriel Grymes Blumenthal
73%
1921
Edith Durrell Marshall
72%
1924
Jean Grant Taylor
72%
1930
Gladys Wester Horton
72%
1928
Elizabeth Prescott Balch
71%
1926
Marietta Darsie
70%
1934
Betty Suttle Briscoe
Helen Bean Emery
70%
1939
Janet Thorpe
Top Ten Class Gifts
Unrestricted Annual Giving
70%
1943
Muriel Grymes Blumenthal
$10,165.75
1939
Janet Thorpe
9,985.94
1952
Frances Street Smith
8,669.00
1935
Alice McCloskey Schlendorf
8,429.49
1931
Evelyn Mullen
7,803.48
1947
Virginia Barron Summer
7,466.13
1946
Elinor Clement Littleton
7,390.25
1938
Dorothy Nicholson Tate
7,089.00
1928
Elizabeth Prescott Balch
6,932.33
1959
Alice Cary Farmer Brown
6,841.17
1933
Ella/esse Latham
6,800.27
1937
6,210.36
1978 Club Gifts
In addition to their individual support. Sweet Briar alumnae provide
invaluable aid through club gifts. Everyone at the college appreciates
the hard work these gifts represent.
Amherst
Atlanta
Birmingham
Boston
Central Ohio
Charlotte
Charlottesville
Chattanooga
Cleveland
Denver
Fairfield County
Greensboro
Long Island
Louisville
Lynchburg
Nashville
Peninsula of Va.
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Richmond
Roanoke
Rochester
Tidewater (Norfolk)
Washington
Wilmington
Solo
Cleveland
Endowed Scholarships
N.E.H. Challenge
Unrestricted
$ 1000.00
2000.00
1200.00
1600.00
20.85
1000.00
500.00
31.35
1500.00
350.00
600.00
1900.00
58.73
1 100.00
200.00
350.00
400.00
4500.00
300.00
3600.00
225.00
2545.25
876.02
7500.00
800.00
474.75
$34,631.95
500.00
New York
750.00
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Dallas
Fairfield County
Lynchburg
Northern New Jersey
Solo
St. Louis
Annual Scholarships
1978 Bulb Sales
Cleveland
New York
Amherst
Cleveland
Greensboro
Houston
Indianapolis
Northern New Jersey
Philadelphia
Richmond
Tidewater
Washington
N.E.H. Challenge
Unrestricted
Friends of Art
Fairfield
Dallas
Chapel Fund
Memorial Scholarship Fund
1400.00
700.00
400.00
500.00
450.00
700.00
$ 4,150.00
500.00
750.00
30.00
30.00
30.00
30.00
50.00
25.00
30.00
30.00
30.00
100.00
$ 385.00
Friends of the Library
Amherst
25.00
Cleveland
25.00
Dallas
25.00
Indianapolis
50.00
Louisville
25.00
Northern New Jersey
25.00
Philadelphia
25.00
Richmond
25.00
San Diego
50.00
Tidewater
25.00
Washington
100.00
$ 400.00
25.00
10.00
Anne Gary Pannell Taylor Scholarship
Atlanta 20.00
Seattle
Meta Glass Faculty Salaries
325.00
Anne Gary Pannell Taylor Library Fund
Charlotte 10.00
Grand Total $41,206.95
Orders
1978
1977
Amherst
65
1,360.54
957.45
Atlanta
129
3,551.81
19,475.30
Austin
9
197.58
653.25
Baltimore
50
1,536.22
1,138.33
Birmingham
25
542.00
795.25
Boston
238
6,757.49
5,125.58
California, Southern
13
621.59
1,059.42
Charlotte
73
2,437.80
2,822.84
Charlottesville
25
866.57
786.99
Chicago
39
1,308.33
987.78
Cincinnati
55
1,985.14
1,956.43
Cleveland
66
2,124.31
1,661.34
Columbia, S.C.
12
255.83
474.40
Dallas
39
1,708.08
1,698.67
Denver
26
815.54
818.01
Fairfield County
221
6,074.84
3,115.06
Greensboro
46
3,729.32
3,928.99
Indianapolis
145
3,437.90
2,508.25
Lexington, Ky.
15
387.79
Long Island
16
594.47
100.75
Louisville
90
2,359.48
3,535.32
Lynchburg
64
2,575.94
2,437.62
Minneapolis
9
296.46
783.56
Nashville
25
1,072.71
665.94
New York
21
576.87
261.79
Northern New Jersey
75
2,317.53
2,592.35
Peninsula of Virginia
38
1,202.74
929.48
Philadelphia
238
7,307.27
5,581.71
Pittsburgh
58
1,507.71
797.82
Princeton
38
2,176.06
888.28
Richmond
250
6,953.77
6,560.87
Roanoke
37
881.21
776.38
Rochester
88
2,154.68
1,747.01
St. Louis
110
2,909.85
2.196.78
Seattle
13
364.93
435.19
Texarkana
6
696.59
601.80
Tidewater
59
1,610.89
2,666.07
Toledo
33
763.76
452.26
Utica
20
510.73
935.78
Washington
372
12,336.68
10,547.11
Westchester
15
254.88
224.35
Wilmington
29
891.01
1,187.20
Winston-Salem
30
715.38
513.06
Solos
93
3,048.68
2,705.03
Alumnae Office
318
3,436
10,573.83
8,711.86
Total (spring bulbs)
$106,352.79
$108,798.75
Amaryllis (fall and winter)
21,454.72
23.045.34
GRAND TOTAL
$127,807.51
$131,844.09
Sweet Briar College Total Voluntary Support
Alumnae Giving For the Last Two Years
1977-78 1976-77
$246,348 Annual Unrestricted $212,373
Alumnae Gifts
53% Percent Contributing 54%
TOTAL ALUMNAE GIFTS 1977-78
TOTAL PARTICIPATION
$470,188
55%
Board of Overseers
Alumnae
Parents
Friends
Faculty, Staff & Students
Foundations
Corporations
Government Grants
-Double Credits
TOTAL
1976-77
1977-78
$ 57,507.97
$ 127,498.34
502,176.00
470,188.06
356,525.99
187,532.01
328,484.19
141,834.49
9,052.42
6.727.26
173,052.39
431,034.22
43,351.00
47.616.75
32,671.00
428,971.00
-85,233.48
-157,571.59
$1,417,587.48
$1,683,830.54
37
Alumnae Giving By Classes
Fund Agents
Class
1910
Frances Murrell Rickards
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
Anne Schutte Nolt
1916
1917
Jane Henderson
1918
Margaret McVey
1919
Caroline Sharpe Sanders
1920
1921
Edith Durrell Marshall
1922
1923
Helen McMahon
1924
Jean Grant Taylor
1925
1926
Marietta Darsie
1927
Jeanette Boone
1928
Elizabeth Prescoit Balch
1929
Sara Ca//isonJamison
1930
Gladys Wester Horton
1931
Evelyn Mullen
1932
Marion Malm Fowler
1933
EUaJesse Latham
1934
Betty Suttle Briscoe
Helen Bean Emery
1935
Alice MeCloskey Schlendorl
1936
1937
1938
Dorothy Nicholson Tate
1939
Janet Thorpe
1940
1941
Frances Chichester Hull
1942
Helen Sanford
1943
Muriel Grymes Blumenthal
1944
Dorothy Denny Sutton
1945
Julia Mills Jacobsen
1946
Elinor Clement Littleton
1947
Virginia Barron Summer
1948
Meon Bower Harrison
1949
Sarah Gay Lanford
1950
Deborah Freeman Cooper
1951
Sally Anderson Blalock
1952
Frances Street Smith
1953
Jacqueline Lowe Young
1954
Joy Parker Eldredge
1955
Phyllis Joyner
1956
Helen Wolfe Evans
1957
Joanne Raines Daniel
1958
Lanny Tuller Webster
1959
Alice Cary Farmer Brown
1960
Tucky McFall Ziebold
1961
Margaret Storey Abernathy
Winifred Storey Davis
1962
Alice Allen Smyth
Barbara Ross Goode
1963
Patricia Calkins Wilder
Lucy Otis Anderson
1964
Mary Duer Leach
1965
Juliet Young Maclver
1966
Martha Madden Swanson
1967
Beth Glaser Morchower
1968
Pamela Burwell Benton
1969
Judith Powell
Michael Nexen Robertson
1970
Joanne Hicks Robblee
Virginia Ranney
1971
Pamolu Oldham
1972
Marion Walker
1973
Diane Leslie
1974
Phyllis Becker
1975
Sandra Vonetes
1976
Robin Lee Rodger
1977
Kathleen Roantree
Annual
Total
Participation
Unrestricted
Alumnae
(Gifts to
Alumnae
Gifts
All Funds)
$ 1,050.00
S 20,998.57
100%
60.00
60.00
100%
625.00
650.00
58%
285.00
295.00
40%
735.00
765.00
67%
205.00
230.00
64%
1,935.00
2,945.00
54%
1,840.00
1,950.00
61%
1,510.00
1,510.00
54%
492.00
502.00
67%
2,163.76
2,198.76
74%
815.86
3,065.86
40%
1,074.40
6,204.40
54%
1,787.00
1,797.00
74%
980.00
1.075.00
59%
5,007.13
10,139.87
75%
3,377.48
5,637.48
57%
6,932.33
13,588.89
72%
4,508.00
4,943.00
70%
4,090.00
5,485.00
76%
7,803.48
21,183.79
68%
3,858.70
4,638.70
69%
6,800.27
8.475.27
68%
3,659.90
12,452.94
74%
8,429.49
12,379.49
68%
5,637.48
10.829.96
67%
6,210.36
7,350.36
76%
7,089.00
8,264.00
77%
9,985.94
11,975.94
71%
4,731.40
12.857.54
65%
5,685.00
11.944.83
67%
3,259.92
5,784.24
78%
10,165.75
21,246.99
76%
3,620.48
4,340.48
64%
5,049.35
7,114.35
63%
7,390.25
19,563.25
67%
7,466.13
7,771.13
65%
5,622.86
12,383.26
64%
5,256.00
6,090.56
59%
2,980.00
3,404.99
56%
3,040.00
3,450.00
57%
8.669.00
19,839.90
61%
4,993.00
5,338.00
60%
3,730.00
6,906.19
50%
2,233.00
2,861.33
53%
1,956.58
2,332.65
49%
3,641.00
4,518.88
54%
3,016.00
4,282.50
54%
6,841.17
7,191.17
64%
2,944.00
6,213.09
48%
4,661.00
7,784.52
53%
5,195.34
5,965.34
48%
3,441.50
5,266.50
58%
2,815.00
3,385.00
56%
3,918.81
4,088.81
49%
4,043.00
9,258.00
49%
1,986.00
2,194.49
47%
2,106.55
2,670.05
47%
1,978.00
2,123.00
39%
2,469.00
2,834.00
48%
1,838.50
2,158.50
42%
2,520.00
2,725.00
39%
1.592.92
1.862.92
38%
1,289.00
1,980.00
38%
1,744.00
1,930.00
39%
883.00
1,081.00
36%
873.00
1,562.00
30%
38
ALUMNAE IN THE NEWS
WINTER ISSUE
1978-79
SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE MAGAZINE
Nella Gray Barklev *55 of Charleston has
joined The John C. Crystal Center, Inc., of NY
as vice president. The Crystal Center offers
courses in career and life planning to individ-
uals and institutions in the NY area and
throughout the USA. Former President of the
Assoc, of Junior Leagues, Nella currently
serves on the SC committees of the NEH and
the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and as
chairman of the SC Endowment for Educa-
tional Television.
Dale Hutter Harris '53 of Lynchburg re-
ceived the degree of Juris Doctores from the
University of Virginia this past June. Dale,
who gave the Opening Convocation address
at SBC in Sept.. is a member of the College's
Board of Directors.
Elizabeth V. Moore '33 of Edenton, NC,
was awarded the Ruth Coltrane Cannon Cup
in Raleigh last Dec. The distinguished award
was made by Thomas Gray, president of the
Historic Preservation Society in Raleigh.
Elizabeth then was a guest of honor at the
Governor's mansion. The Ruth Cannon
Award is given annually by the Society to the
person or organization that has made signi-
ficant achievements in the field of historic
preservation, restoration or research in North
Carolina. A Raleigh newspaper writer said
"Elizabeth Moore has worked for three de-
cades to discover, to share and to preserve
the history of Edenton. . .she is recognized as
the fountainhead of truth about Edenton . . .
seldom has a town been more blessed."
Catherine Cox Reynolds '49, former mayor
of West Hartford, CONN, was appointed by
Gov. Grasso in March to chair the state's Ur-
ban Action Task Force, an alliance of state
commissioners, municipal, labor and business
representatives "charged with developing
programs to implement Gov. Grasso's exec,
order of March 9," concerning the state's
urban policies.
Elinor Ward Francis '37 of Haverford,
PA, was the recipient of the National Recrea-
tion and Park Association's National Volun-
tary Service Award this past year. She has also
won the Voluntary Service Award from the PA
Recreation and Park Society; she is a con-
sultant to the Philadelphia Dept. of Recrea-
tion and President of the National Recreation
Foundation and a trustee of the NRPA, which
among other duties, monitors legislative con-
cerns on Capitol Hill.
Lucile Barrow Turner '17 of Forest, VA, is
the subject of a full-page feature written by
Alicia Glass '69 in the Lynchburg News of
Feb. 19, 1978. Lynchburg's "acclaimed singer
and folklore collector attended the Court
House Bicentennial, where 'Lynchburg,' the
song she composed for the celebration was
performed. . . .With a chorus of 'Let me live
and let me die where the Blue Ridge Moun-
tains touch the sky, and the River James goes
rolling by,' the song's metaphors were the
hit of the weekend. . . ."
Mary Harris Ludington AC of Pelham
Manor, NY, was honored in July by the Inter-
national Garden Club, which maintains the
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, a National
Historic Landmark. The new herb garden at
Bartow-Pell Mansion, the Bronx, is The Mary
Ludington Herb Garden, planted in recogni-
tion of her years of service to the Club and her
interest in horticulture. Mrs. Ludington is the
mother of Mayde L. Henningsen '48; her son-
in-law is Victor W. Henningson. Jr., a member
of Sweet Briar's Board of Directors.
Elizabeth Perkins Prothro '39 of Wichita
Falls, TEX, was honored by the Southern
Methodist University Alumni Association at
its 1978 Distinguished Alumni Awards Ban-
quet in March.
Kathleen Kavanagh '74, formerly associate
director of SBC's Office of Public Informa-
tion and Publications, now works in the Office
of Development at The Madeira School.
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Two Retirements:
Librarian For All Seasons
by Martha von Briesen '31 and Catharine Booker '47
It takes two of us to write about Lydia. Besides,
Piglet always advised Pooh, "It's so much more
friendly with two."
Catharine: Now that Lydia Newland has retired as Sweet
Briar's assistant librarian, who in the world will take a
broom and calmly sweep a blacksnake from the corridor
of the Mary Helen Cochran Library? Who. for that
matter, will fix a sudden air-conditioning failure or a
stuck book-lift in the library? From now on, who will
blithely enter center stage of the Faculty Show on roller
skates? Lydia did all those things.
Martha, who shared Lydia's home at 4 Woodland Road
for twenty years, knows what she's talking about when
she says today, "Lydia's colleagues and friends respect
David Abrams
A graduate of Skidmore College (A.B.) and of the Library School of
Columbia University (B.S.), Lydia Newland then worked as catalog-
ing assistant at Skidmore's library, as library assistant at the Pruyn
Branch of the Albany, NY, Public Library and as librarian at Dickin-
son Junior College. For two decades she was a member of Sweet Briar's
Book Shop Committee. She is a member of the American Library
Association, the Southeastern and Virginia Library associations.
her discriminating literary taste and her love for books,
traits which are in large measure responsible for the
Sweet Briar library's enviable reputation in academic
circles. She has good reason to be proud of her contri-
bution to enhance that reputation."
Catharine: Like other alumnae, I have many times been
a guest at 4 Woodland Road and I discovered that Lydia
not only read shelves of cookbooks, she also cooked
(fresh cherry pie; no packaged pie-filling for her). One
evening as Martha and I sat on the sofa in front of the
picture window overlooking the Blue Ridge, reading
the Lynchburg paper and taking some strengthening
medicine, Lydia appeared from the kitchen, wear-
ing an apron and carrying a potholder and a pair of bi-
noculars. "Mart! Quick! Come look at the pileated
woodpecker!" she exclaimed. Lydia and Martha had in
their yard one of the largest collections of bird feeders
in Amherst County.
Even while birdwatching or cooking or traveling,
Lydia can see. By this we mean that she has the ability
to see a picture, with her camera at the ready, whether
she is on a street in Katmandu or on a palm-fringed
beach on Tahaiti or in the high Andes in Bolivia. In our
opinion, what the eye sees is more important than what
the hand holds, be the camera an Instamatic or a Hassel-
blad. For her spring 1978 journey to Egypt, following
her retirement, Lydia took her camera, a Fujica. I pre-
sume that on this mid-East trip with her sister Milla,
Lydia also collected stamps; the immediate past presi-
dent of the Lynchburg Stamp Club, Lydia became in-
terested in the club through Dr. Carol Rice, stamp col-
lector par excellence.
How many off-campus alumnae, Martha and I
wonder, know that Lydia sings? For some years
she was a mainstay of the choir of Ascension Epis-
copal Church in Amherst. How many off-campus alum-
nae know that Lydia is a strong swimmer and a bike
rider? Years ago — in the 50's and 60's — before bicycles
became popular as campus vehicles Lydia every day
pedaled off to work on a bicycle. Our friend sits still
only when she's reading. Her favorite reading includes
the New York Times: detective and mystery fiction;
the novels of Anthony Powell; the New Yorker: the
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National Geographic and a varied assortment of other
books and periodicals.
Martha: Her college major was English literature and
she is familiar with most of the classics in that field.
She came to Sweet Briar in 1940 as assistant in our li-
brary; she worked there for thirty-seven years, serving
in almost every staff position except that of cataloger
and seeing and helping the library collection grow from
about 50,000 catalogued items to its current total of
nearly 172,000. When library tours became an orienta-
tion requirement, Lydia taught new students about the
mysteries of the catalog, the range of reference collection
and the treasures of the stacks. As reference librarian
she helped many students locate materials for term
papers.
A sabbatical in 1959 enabled her to visit colleges
north and south to learn methods of cataloging and
maintaining college archives, which in turn led to her
establishing and supervising materials in the Fanny B.
Fletcher Archives Room, located next to the Rare Book
Room. Because Lydia carefully organized files of photos,
publications, scrapbooks, clippings, dissertations,
novels, poems and autograph letters of every sort about
faculty, alumnae and students, she is today often asked
by our Alumnae Magazine editors to "run over to the
Archives and look this up for us." She never fails. Secret-
ly, we imagine, she might be saying silently,
be sweeping out a blacksnake."
Td rather
Twenty years ago, when planning began for the
library addition, she worked enthusiastically with
the architect Russell Bailey to make the Charles A.
Dana Wing as efficient, practical and inviting as pos-
sible. From 1958 she was in charge of book purchases;
her wide knowledge of books and publishers enabled her
to make the best use of available funds. Many alumnae
still remember Lydia's handsome book-picture-period-
ical displays in the library's corridor. Always, when
alumnae returned to their reunions, they walked the cor-
ridor because Lydia had arranged special photo ex-
hibits for the reunion classes.
During the 1978 alumnae reunion luncheon at Sweet
Briar, Lydia was a guest at the head table. She heard a
former student library assistant, Marion Bower Harrison
'48 of Orange, Virginia, speak with appreciation for the
help Lydia gave to student library assistants and of the
hospitality many alumnae found at 4 Woodland Road.
"I feel truly privileged," said Meon, "to express the
thanks and admiration of the Alumnae Association
to my long-time friend."
Historian For All Arts
by Aileen H. Laing '57
What do J.M.W. Turner, Monticello and the Ming
Dynasty have in common? They have all been
brought to life by Ruth Firm as she introduced almost
two decades of Sweet Briar students to the wonder and
beauty of visual arts. A dedicated teacher and conscien-
tious scholar, Ruth expanded her interest from Turner
and nineteenth century English painting to the develop-
ment of American art which at times was closely assoc-
iated with the "mother country" and at other times was
wildly independent. But at Sweet Briar, as we all know,
faculty and students are expected to be able to do every-
ting! Ruth clearly was capable of fulfilling this ideal and.
with the assistance of Fulbright and Ford Foundation
grants, ably spent several summers studying the art and
cultures of China, Japan, and India at various institu-
tions and traveling through the Orient. As a result she
was able to offer a course on Oriental art enlivened by
her first-hand and often amusing adventures.
But as former students and colleagues recall Ruth's
years at Sweet Briar will be her constancy as
friend and counselor and her steadfast commitment to
duty that we remember as well as the quality of her
teaching. Fortunately for those of us still at Sweet Briar,
she will not be far away and we can look forward to many
more years of stimulating conversation and warm wel-
comes at her Woodland Road home. That is, unless she
is traveling, seeking a spot not yet visited or returning
to a favorite haunt from previous excursions. Sweet
Briar has only formed part of this vivacious and
many-talented lady's life. At one time a member of the
British Petroleum Mission in Washington, she also
served as a Red Cross volunteer in the South Pacific
Theatre during World War II. Who knows what the
future holds? Searches for a grand piano and investment
in camera equipment as well as casual references to
painting "again" lead one to suspect that retirement
is purely a formality for Ruth and that she will be busier,
than ever.
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Ambassadors — At — Large
by
Dorothy Woods McLeod '58,
First vice president and Director of Clubs, Alumnae Association
There was a time when the aim of a well-educated
lady was to belong to social clubs of her choosing
so that she could keep up with her world of friends and
the gossip that surrounded them. It was a time of lunch-
eons, tea dances, white gloves, hats and maids.
Today's educated woman is interested in further ed-
ucation, business, equal rights and independence, and
her clubs and organizations must be business-like,
educational and worthwhile.
What then should be the role of the Sweet Briar Alum-
na Club of the 70's and the future? Perhaps from the
Three R's of our past we should turn to the Three I's
of the present: namely, Instruct, Involve and Inform.
Today's SBC Alumna Club must effectively instruct
or educate alumnae and prospective students about the
College, how over the years Sweet Briar maintained the
traditions it was founded on while at the same time it
met challenges and changes demanded by each genera-
tion. We must all be ambassadors-at-large who demon-
strate in our lives how Sweet Briar prepared us for the
future so we can show prospective students that SBC
is the place for them.
The Club must stimulate involvement not only in
Sweet Briar activities such as raising money for scholar-
ships but also in community projects. As the Club be-
comes involved, the alumnae and community must be
kept informed through newsletters, meetings and ex-
posure of the Sweet Briar name through the news media.
As an alumna, you become an ambassador and public
relations chairman.
At Sweet Briar, Dorothy McLeod was House President as a
sophomore, Secretary of the Judicial Committee as a junior and its
Chairman as a senior. She and her physician husband live in
Nashville with their two children.
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There is no magic way to carry out the Three I's
because there is no typical SBC Club, no more
than there is a typical SBC student. Each Club tries
to meet the needs of its alumnae. Time, place and fre-
quency of meetings depend on numbers of alumnae,
their profesisons and activities.
Highlighting its year, the New York Club sponsors
a College benefit. This year-long project culminates
in reserving a block of seats for an off-Broadway play
and serving dinner beforehand; or sponsoring a wine-
tasting party with W & L. Proceeds go to scholarships
at SBC. Atlanta has sponsored a Living Room Learn-
ing series for many years. A local person, an expert in
a certain subject or interest, is invited to speak during
a four-to-ten week period in an alumna's or a friend's
home. The charge to the "learners" covers a stipend for
the teacher and a profit for the Atlanta Club. Their
program is educational, fun and good public relations
for the College.
The Philadelphia Club has recently joined a continu-
ing education program, Continuum. Because we are not
founding members, we do not share any profits, but we
are listed with'cooperating groups and our alumnae
receive the materials. The Continuum sponsors courses
for life-long learning, taught by faculty members from
different colleges and universities at a cost of about $50
per student.
Along these same lines, SBC's Traveling Faculty Pro-
gram sends faculty and staff members to our Gubs in
many states. Each speaker receives a $50 honorarium
and expenses. The College pays one-third of this, the
Alumnae Association pays one-third and the Club pays
the remaining expenses. This program is ideal for the
smaller SBC Clubs because it can be sponsored with
other alumnae-alumni clubs or groups.
Sweet Briar Day is a joyous occasion celebrated on
December 28 unless the Club selects another date. This
is the day when the Three I's are out in full force! A
current student or a young alumna can instruct; the
alumnae are involved and the media have been informed.
If your area has only a few students attending Sweet
Briar, you can combine forces with other Virginia-college
students and plan a Sweet Briar- Virginia Day, sponsored
by the Sweet Briar Club in your city or area.
Membership in our Alumna Club should be fun and
worthwhile, as needs are being met: the search for pro-
spective students, fund-raising for scholarships, and
continuing education programs. Your Club should also
be a welcoming organization, particularly in the large
cities. Starting this year. Alumnae House is sending each
Club an updated print-out of local alumnae; the list
will be mailed at least three times a year. When you read
the new names, please call and welcome the new alumnae
to your city. Get a jump on the Welcome Wagon and be
the first to welcome a newcomer. An Alumna Club
of any size has a lot more to offer than directions to the
nearest grocery store.
All our 52 Clubs differ in structure and size. No two
are alike but they all serve the same purposes and
that's what keeps the system going. The larger Clubs
have an advantage not only in membership but also in
community size and interest. The smaller Clubs must
remember that it is not the number of alumnae that
counts but their interest and work. Each is challenged
in a different way. Some of our best ambassadors come
from inactive club areas that send four or five students to
SBC each year. Be inventive. If you can't grow bulbs in
your area, sell something else. If you want an Admissions
Counselor to help with recruitment, write the Admission
Office. If you see a need in your community for a special
project, start it. Please don't just return the Annual
Fund envelope and sit back until next year. Be involved
as a Sweet Briar alumna and be proud of your College.
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The Compleat Cook
by
Kathryn Barnes Hendricks '70
I learned to cook French food during my Junior Year
Abroad when I took lessons all year long. It's so
funny to have people ask me if I majored in home eco-
nomics in college when I tell them I learned to cook in
college! What really started me off was having grown
up with fantastic food in our home, none of it particu-
larly southern (which my mother believed was not so
nutritious). Later, when working with Atlanta's Cook's
Corner (a cookshop, cooking school and catering busi-
ness), I had the opportunity to study with Malvina Kin-
ard, founder of Cook's Corner, with Florence Lin,
Guiliano Bugiali and recently in Paris with Simone Beck
and the Paris Cordon Bleu.
Last year I started my own business, having quit my
job with the Atlanta Arts Alliance and with Cook's
Corner. Not trying to be boastful, I had gained a culinary
reputation here from loyal students and clients. Be-
sides, I am a very exacting person who should never work
for anyone else because they usually don't care about
things as much as I do. After a good year of business
I'm happy as a clam. One hint to Sweet Briar: offer
a short course in elementary business administration.
I started backwards with the books! (Editor: done)
I figure my charges for cooking schools on what I
think is a fair price, and it's quite arbitrary. Usually they
run around $15 for a two-hour class. I take no more
than eight people per class, so I don't make much money
from classes but that's what I enjoy the most. I'm trying
to decide if I should enlarge my kitchen and if Atlanta
can bear more expensive classes. I charge for my catering
by the things ordered; thus, clients can buy something
inexpensive. I was charging so little for some things that
my Sloane School brother-in-law pointed out that I was
making $2 on some orders! Now I'm reviewing my cater-
ing prices; that aspect of the business is the hardest
work and sometimes the least rewarding.
I cook orders for one person or many. One week this
spring I fed 1 100 people at six different parties during
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A French major, Kathy Barnes Hendricks '70 writes, "My activities
at SBC were limited. Nothing particular to be proud of, no academic
honors but good grades. Nothing jars my memory except being a con-
tender for Glamour's best-dressed college girl, helping Miss Sprague
organize and produce Earth Day (the first one there) and being head
of the pro-Nixon group during the Cambodian invasion."
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four days; one of them was for Mrs. Mondale, another
was for the Prince of Bavaria. Never again ! Another was
for Sweet Briar and then I misplaced a salad for 20
guests. Never was I so disenchanted with the catering
business, and I'm learning to say No.
Usually I prepare the food at home and clients come
to pick it up. I don't think I would be married much
longer if I went to clients' homes and cooked!
Kitchen design and cookshop design are part of my
business ($35 per hour), which I have done in North
Carolina and Alabama. I may do a job in Dalton, GA.
The cost there is $5,000 for what is really a franchise
without the yearly percentage of the profits (the best
bargain I have) or $500 retainer fee and $35 per hour for
any portion of this package deal. St. Catherine's, another
alma mater, has asked me to give lessons for a fund-
raising event. For such travel-demonstration the fee has
to be $300 a day plus expenses.
A sample menu for a buffet luncheon would be:
Rolled souffle of Spinach (Epinard Roulade) around
Scrambled Eggs and topped with Hollandaise Sauce,
Broiled Tomatoes Provencale, Shad roe and Bacon,
then Lemon Milk Sherbet with Blueberries or Simca's
Tart for Jim (grated apples, almonds and raisins).
Menu for a formal dinner (winter): Oysters on the
Halfshell with Caviar, Quail Braised with White Wine,
Carrot Flan, Salade of Braised Celery, and Coeur a la
Creme with Raspberry Sauce.
The cookbooks I recommend for you include Craig
Claiborne's A Kitchen Primer for the most basic; Mal-
vina Kinard's/1 Kitchen Scholar and Simone Beck's
Simca's Cuisine for more advanced cooking; Richard
Olney's The French Menu Cookbook and Simple French
Food for the more sophisticated ; Mastering the Art of
French Cooking, Vol. 1 and 2 for an encyclopedia on
French cooking; Florence Lin's books for Chinese food;
Marcella Hazan and Guiliano Bugiali for Italian food;
and the Charleston Receipts.
Are men better chefs than women? I'm asked that,
and I do not believe that they are. Men do have advan-
tages: strength and ability to work weird hours. A
woman-chef in the traditional sense would have almost
the same lifestyle as an actress on the road. If a woman
is unmarried and plans to live a single life or if she is
married and has a "wife," then she might survive as
a chef! Men that I teach are usually more natural
than women in their approach to cooking and don't
have preconceived ideas about seasonings, appropriate-
ness, etc. and are usually less self-conscious about learn-
ing how to do one of the most important jobs in life.
Alumnae can certainly follow my lead. You must de-
fine your goals and be realistic about how much you
intend to work. It is not easy, however, and I do not
think people should think it's something they can just
jump into and be successful. I worked for three years
for an established corporation, then set up my own
business and am now beginning to see where I ought
to be going. The outlay of money can be great, even for
a little business in the home. Be aware that this cooking
-class and catering is not the answer for every bored
housewife. My husband Pete and I do not have children
but I expect a wave a maternal instinct to hit me any
time! My friend Molly Woltz Carrison '70 told me the
only way to work and work happily with children is to
have a business in your home. Maybe I'm on the right
track.
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November 1918
• • |%T ovember 9, 1918: the firebells rang and
JL y^ we all dashed to the Quadrangle. Here we
found Miss McVea standing on the running board of a
Model T Ford. In a vigorous voice she announced,
'Armistice! The war is over! Peace reigns!' Isolated
as we were with no radios or TV, we actually did not
know until four days later that Nov. 9 was a false report
and that the actual signing was November 11, 1918,"
said Edith Durrell Marshall '21 in the 75th anniversary
edition of the Alumnae Magazine.
November 11, 1978, was the 60th anniversary of the
signing of The Armistice.
Sixty years ago, according to historian Liddell Hart
"the German delegates had no option but to accept the
drastic terms of The Armistice, which was signed in
Foch's railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne at
5 AM on November 1 1th. And at 1 1 o'clock that morning
the World War came to an end."
After August 6, 1914, when the great deployment
began on the western front, the world was never again
the same. Lysbeth W. Muncy, Professor of History
Emeritus, sums up one of the tragedies of the First Great
War: "I want to emphasize the fact that Americans, as
a people, knew so little of the suffering and disillusion-
ment and sense of a lost age which the Europeans ex-
perienced."
We asked Miss Muncy and several other members of
the faculty and staff, "What were you doing and where
were you at 1 1 a.m. that November day?"
Here are their recollections:
Miss Muncy: What was I doing on November 11, 1918?
I was eight years old then and I can remember very well.
My father, a physician, had built a house in the country.
It was on a small hill overlooking the town of Harmony,
Rhode Island. Every day he drove to his office in Provi-
dence. There he talked a great deal about the War with
his patients and they knew his interests.
Early on the morning of November 11th, about six
o'clock, I think, Dad had a phone call from Providence.
The Armistice had been signed. He immediately ran up
the flag and built a fire near the flagpole as a beacon so
that folks in the village and round about would know the
good news. I found a tin horn left from Hallowe'en and
ran from house to house blowing my horn under open
windows and shouting, "Peace, peace! The War is over."
I can't remember what I did at 1 1 o'clock. Perhaps
I was knitting on a scarf I had been making for the
soldiers. I do know that for us, who had suffered so little
and shared in the victory, this seemed a glorious day.
Marion Benedict Rollins, Professor of Religion Emeri-
tus: On November 11, 1918, 1 was a junior at Barnard
College, living in Brooks Hall on the corner of Broadway
and 1 16th Street. New York City went wild, and people
(including all of us in Brooks Hall) poured out into
Broadway, dancing and shouting and singing. I'm sure
we must have had a special service of thanksgiving in
the Columbia University Chapel and a holiday and
interesting meetings, but the pandemonium in the streets
is my most vivid recollection.
Belle Boone Beard, Professor of Sociology Emeritus:
I was teaching school in the mountains of Franklin
County and did not hear about it for a couple of days.
Elizabeth F. Sprague, Professor of Ecology Emeritus:
I fear my memory of November 11, 1918, yields nothing.
I do recall a flag-waving parade around the block with
two friends who lived next door and with my brother and
sister. We were barefoot urchins with mops of white-to-
blond hair and we were probably singing "Marching as
to War." We enjoyed the occasion. Since it was summer,
we were at the beach and there was lots of wide open
space, ten cottages on three miles of beach; now there
are 10,000 crowded into the strand called Mission Beach.
I asked Gert (Miss Prior '29) at the pool yesterday and
she said they had a parade at school. Mabel Chipley
can't recall. Apparently that was not a day that meant
very much to small children in school trying to learn
times tables or whatever was to be learned.
Helen McMahon '23, former Alumnae Association
Director and Manager of the Book Shop: In fact, I have
confused memories of Armistice Day — parades, church
services and happy tears. I was a sophomore in high
school and had no family or close friends in any way
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involved except in all of the volunteer activities.
Sarah Thorpe Ramage, Professor of English Emeritus:
Strangely enough, I have no recollection of the actual
Armistice Day, but I do have a most vivid recollection of
the false Armistice announcement that took place a day
or two earlier.
In 1918 I was twelve years old, old enough to have
heard and understood something of the four years of
talk about the War and its terrible progress. We were
aghast at the destruction of Belgium and had contri-
buted to the fund to help the refugees; the son of one of
our friends had been killed ; among the civilians even
the children were organized to do what they could. I
had helped to make candles for use in the trenches:
newpapers cut into strips two columns wide which were
rolled tightly and then soaked in parafin to give off heat
as well as light. Everyone knew that the tide had finally
turned in favor of the Allies and the tension of waiting
for the end had been heightened by hope.
I was sitting at my desk at school in Memphis on the
morning of November 9 or 10, when the door burst open
and a teacher rushed in, holding up, for the whole room
to see, a newspaper whose two-inch-high headline was
the one word: PEACE! In the general commotion I said
fervently, "Thank God!" and then I realized that for
the first time in my life I had burst into tears of joy. I
was so astonished at myself that even in that moment
I thought, "I am really grown up!"
After that, the announcement of the true Armistice
had lost its initial impact; I don't even remember where
I was!
Bertha P. Wailes ' 1 7, Associate Professor of Sociology
Emeritus: I was doing research work in 1918 at Penn-
hurst, one of the two state institutions of Pennsylvania.
My family lived in Amherst, and I came home several
times during the year but do not remember whether
Nov. 1 1 was one of these occasions.
Winifred Walker, former Book Store Manager: As I had
left for England in 1914 to nurse an invalid aunt and did
not return until 1920, 1 am unable to recall Armistice
Day in this country.
Carol M. Rice, M.D., former College Physician,
Professor of Hygiene Emeritus: On November 11,
1918, 1 was a junior at Smith College in Northampton,
Mass. The Armistice was not totally unexpected;
although in those days the college did not boast a
campus alert broadcast, it took a little time to let
all of us know there would be a memorial service at noon
in John M. Greene Hall. At eighty I have no memory
even for long-gone events, but it seems to me that Smith's
president in 1918 was William Allan Neilson. He had
accepted the presidency, so the rumor went, with the
understanding that he would neither raise money nor
pray in the chapel. That in no way made him a poor
speaker. That day in November, Smith was treated to an
excellent memorial service, an outstanding recognition
of the glorious Armistice.
Jane C. Belcher, Professor of Ecology Emeritus: I re-
member so clearly Armistice Day. I was eight years old,
living in Maplewood, New Jersey. My friends and I took
great sheets of galvanized tin and beat on the tin with
whatever we could find as we marched up and down the
streets.
Lois Ballenger, secretary to Presidents Glass, Lucas
and Pannell-Taylor: I was a freshman at Greenville
Woman's College (now the woman's college of Furman
University) on November 11, 1918. As I recall, the news
came through about midday, and a special convocation
was called following the dinner hour. President David
M. Ramsay made the happy announcement to the as-
sembled student body and led a short religious service
in which all of us participated. The bells of all of the
churches in the city of Greenville, SC, rang out for a
long time during the late afternoon and early evening
of that day. I was particularly interested in the cessation
of fighting of World War I because my older brother was
in the United States Navy and was in the Dardanelles at
that time. He later came to see me at GWC and was
sought after by many of my friends for news of his war
experiences, which pleased him very much.
Laura T. Buckham, Professor of French Emeritus:
I was in Burlington, Vermont, on November 11, 1918,
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and recall that all the bells — church bells and other
available bells — rang most of the day. I'm sure there
were celebrations but I did not participate in any. Before
The Armistice I remember very vividly rolling bandages
for the wounded. We were given strips of gauze into
which we put strands of oakum; it was supposed to
staunch the blood. I can still smell that wonderful tar-
like aroma. I don't know if they still use oakum to calk
boats but it was a familiar smell around Maine harbors
when I was a child.
ing and historical accuracy. The First World War was
an incredible event that forever changed the course of
world history, the world's governments, the mores of
the people and their social structure. Of these ten books
I suggest you begin your reading with The Proud Tower,
which presents the orderly-structured world of pre- War I
interwoven with the first signs of intrigue and unrest
among governments, leading to WW I."
Martha von Briesen '31, former Director of Public Re-
lations: I recall much noise — factory whistles and church
bells — and excitement on Nov. 9, the false Armistice
Day. We lived in a Milwaukee suburb and apparently
Dad called from his downtown office and suggested
that Mother bring me and my older brother Jake to the
city. We had no car, so surely we went by streetcar, a
rather long trip (eight blocks to walk to our end of a
car line), then 30 min. to mid-town. I suppose there was
a parade, although I don't remember it. My clear mem-
ory is of standing on a curb when clanging bells an-
nounced the approach of a fire wagon (steamer or
pumper?) drawn by three speeding horses. In my eager-
ness to see these handsome animals, I let go Dad's hand
and stepped into the street. He followed me and quickly
snatched me back to safety in his arms. As the vehicle
thundered by, I was glad to view it from the sidewalk.
I don't remember what we did on November 11, but
I don't think we went to town that day. I suppose we
were in school, where there was doubtless some obser-
vance to mark the momentous occasion. Oh yes, I re-
member newsboys yelling "Extra! Extra!" as they ran up
and down our quiet street, but was it Nov. 9 or 1 1 or
both days? No radio then, as everyone relied on "Extras"
for news that broke between morning and afternoon
papers.
One of our readers whose library includes many
books about the Great War recommends the
following ten books as "representative of splendid writ-
The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman. Macmillan.
1966.
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. Mac-
millan. 1962.
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Home.
St. Martin's Press. 1963.
First Day on the Somme, 1 July 1916 by Martin
Middlebrook. W. W. Norton. 1972.
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell.
Oxford University Press. 1975.
History of the First World War by Liddell Hart.
Cassell and Company Ltd. 1970.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque.
Little, Brown and Co. 1929.
A Hilltop on the Marne by Mildred Aldrich, "Being
Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914." Houghton
Mifflin. 1915.
Wilfred Owen, a Biography by Jon Stallworthy.
Oxford University Press. 1977.
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited by C.
Day Lewis. New Directions Books. 1964.
C. Day Lewis believes that Owen's work "is certainly
the finest written by any English poet of the First War
and probably the greatest poems about war in our litera-
ture." On November 4, 1918, exactly one week before
The Armistice, Lieut. Owen was killed in action as he
led his men across the Sambre Canal. He was twenty-
five years old. He lies in the village cemetery at Ors,
buried between Private Duckworth and Private Topping.
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Estate^
Planning
News
Timely Tips For '78 Taxpayers
When this issue goes to press, the President has not yet signed the Tax Bill. Keep
your eyes and ears open and make inquiries at your IRS Office to check the points
listed below and others that pertain:
• Exemption for taxpayer and dependents has been increased from $750 to
$1000 each.
• Zero Tax Bracket (new name for standard deduction) remains $2300 for single
and $3400 for married couples filing jointly.
• Plan to itemize deductions in one year when medical expenses, etc, have been
extraordinary. It may be advantageous to itemize in alternate years and plan
larger gifts accordingly,
• Tax credit of 20% up to a maximum of $300 (15% of $2000 spent) is allowed
for energy savings costs on principal residence. Items covered include: storm
or thermal windows; more efficient furnaces, wood stoves (but not fireplaces);
heat pumps that replace existing systems; and other energy conserving items.
• "Unit rule," approved by the Revenue Service, can enable one taxpayer to get
a $1500 deduction, IF your contribution to the support of your aged parents
equals more than half of their total support and if you treat both parents as a
unit.
• For 1978 and future years, an appreciated asset must be held at least one year
and a day to be considered as long-term capital gain.
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS PROVIDE TAX DEDUCTIONS:
Cash:
You can deduct up to 50% of taxable income.
Appreciated Assets:
Using as gifts avoids payment of capital gains.
You can deduct up to 30% of taxable income.
Excess of either deduction can be carried over for five years or until used up,
whichever comes first.
Services:
You cannot place a value on your personal services, but expenses (transpor-
tation, meals, lodging, tolls) in connection with charitable services are de-
ductible. Always keep detailed records to support your claim.
Material Gifts:
Have gifts appraised and keep careful record of value.
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REUNION 1979
Sweet Briar College
Alumnae Magazine
Spring 1979
Volume 4-9, Number 3, Spring 1979
Editor: Catharine Fitzgerald Hooker '47
Manuring Editor: Ann Morrison Reams '42
Class Notes Editor: Carolvn Bates
Alumnae Magazine
Spring 1979
1 Colleges and Commerce
by Ross R. Millhiser
6 Long Range Planning and the
Alumnae
by Gregory T. Armstrong
10 Founders' Day 1978:
What is College For?
by Josiah Bunting, III
14 Forty Shades of Green
by Julia S. de Coligny '34
16 Letters
17 Briar Patches
34 Alumnae Notices
36 Women at Work
42 The Apple is Alive and Well . . .
by Katherine Macdonald and
Jennifer Crispen
46 Bon Appetit!
by Amy Campbell '80
47 The Editor's Room
48 The Guiding Lights
bv Claire Dennison '80
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine (ISSX 0039-7342). Issued
four times yearly; fall, winter, spring and summer by Sweet Briar
College. Second class postage paid at Sweet Briar. Virginia 24595.
Telephone (804) 381-5513. Printed by J. P. Bell, Lynchburg, VA.
Send form 3579 to Sweet Briar College, Box E, Sweet Briar, VA
24595.
COVER: In this issue (page 1)
we celebrate the once unique and
still outstanding Virginia Founda-
tion for Independent Colleges,
whose logo — only slightly modified
for our Sweet Briar readership — is
the ecumenical centerpiece of our
Spring cover. Pictured at right is
Lea Booth, Director of the V.F.I.C
and his wife Mary Morris Gamble
Booth '51.
Colleges @ and ® Commerce
by Ross R. Millhiser
Vice Chairman of the Board, Philip Morris Inc.
The VFIC: A Major Industry
The Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges
brings together in common purpose twelve privately
supported, senior institutions more concerned about
excelling than merely surviving. Each has demonstrated
over a long period of years — their average age is 134 —
the academic vitality, qualitative performance and
management efficiency by which first-rate colleges are
measured as productive centers of higher learning.
The twelve members of the VFIC constitute a major
industry in their own right — aggregate capital assets
of $460 million, annual expenditures of $88 million,
more than 3,000 employees with a total payroll of
$47 million. The extent of their value as tax-savers
is suggested by the $760 million in legislative ap-
propriations to finance the State-sponsored system of
higher education during the current biennium.
The participating institutions are: Bridgewater
College, Emory & Henry College, Hampden -Sydney
College, Hollins College, Lynchburg College, Mary
Baldwin College, Randolph-Macon College, Randolph-
Macon Woman's College, University of Richmond,
Roanoke College, Sweet Briar College, and Washing-
ton and Lee University.
American history records many gratuitous slaps
at the common man, but none so biting and
final as "The public be damned."
But like Calvin Coolidge's aphorism that the business
of America is business, that outrageous reply by a
Vanderbilt to a reporter's question gathers dust with
other discredited contumely of earlier days. For in
recent decades, several generations of entrepreneurs
and professional managers have led business into
new and often pioneering areas of our national life.
The influence of commerce now gently pervades our
country's life style. Our business is, to be sure, still
business, but we have moved far beyond Cal's pithy
proscription.
Companies like Philip Morris underwrite major
art shows, others support complete new operatic
performances, still others release executive talent to
work with civic and cultural institutions.
But it is education that most often feels the benign
impact of business's commitment to the world around
us. For a number of reasons — some self-serving —
corporate America has granted enormous sums to the
academic area. Grants and research money support
the training of technicians, a practice easy to under-
stand for those corporations that need vertically
trained people to expand scientific progress, to develop
new products and to extend knowledge in disciplines
so crucial to our welfare as new energy sources and
the husbandry of those already at hand.
But the finest venture of business into the world
outside profit and loss comes in its support of liberal
education . . . the wonderful, liberating stuff of the
humanities. Even in that instance of corporate
philanthropy there is selfishness, for the educated
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE
Bndqvu^MCT, Va
Founded 1880
RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE *;
Ashland, Va
Founded 1830
EMORY AND HENRY COLLEGE
Emory. Va
Founded 1836
RANDOLPH-MACON WOMAN'S COLLEGE
Lynchburg. Va I I
Founded 1891 (/ ll
,r. :->
Mack Library, Bridgewater
Refectory, Sweet Briar
Front Campus, Washington & Lee
generalist has the intellectual curiosity and capacity
that gives her or him, as a manager, an overview not
necessarily a part of the technician's background or
even interest.
For many years, the support of liberal arts educa-
tion — and the private, independent colleges that
nurture and teach it so lovingly — rose and fell on
capricious grounds. The chief executive made certain
that alma mater shared in the corporate largess. Or
the most persistent and persuasive college president
walked away with a disproportionate share of the
spoils.
At the same time business awoke — or was awaken-
ing — to its involvement with society, a parallel
phenomenon was taking strong root: the efficient
concept of federated appeals — the Red Feathers and
the United Way campaigns — grew from an idealistic
notion to a reality, and by the early 1950's, that was
clearly the way to raise and distribute money.
That fact was not lost on twelve Virginia colleges and
some farsighted businessmen. A number of them
determined to take the collective approach to raising
funds in the business community for unrestricted use
by the colleges.
The organizing group that met in 1952 comprised
a "Who's Who" of two worlds. From academe,
the presidents of Sweet Briar College (then Anne Gary
Pannell), Bridgewater College, Emory & Henry College,
Hampden-Sydney College, Hollins College, Lynchburg
College, Mary Baldwin College, Randolph-Macon
College, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Roanoke
College, University of Richmond and Washington and
Lee University. And from commerce and industry an
equal number, each representing the governing board
of one of the twelve colleges. Sweet Briar's hierarchy
was represented by its board chairman, Virginia's
pre-eminent banker, Thomas C. Boushall, then Presi-
dent of The Bank of Virginia and already widely known
as one of the nation's most vigorous spokesmen for the
qualitative advancement of education at all levels, as
he is today.
What they created — the Virginia Foundation tor
Independent Colleges — exists twenty-five years later
as an exemplar of cooperation between the two discrete
worlds, and its success is a model of the fund-raising
art that has set the pace for thirty-nine other similar
state organizations seeking corporate financial aid.
The mechanics of the VFIC operation were developed
and refined by one-time public relations director at
Washington and Lee University. United Press writer,
and Congressional committee staff head whose special
personality and dedication have suffused all that has
happened. Lea Booth, then and now, in a real sense is
the VFIC. Courtly, friendly, southern to his marrow,
he moves about corporate offices from New York to
Richmond to Roanoke with an insouciance and disarm-
ing charm that have paid handsome dividends —
literally — for the twelve colleges and universities whose
interests he advocates with awesome energy and single-
minded devotion. Lea also answers to "Dr. Booth." for
his alma mater. Washington and Lee. bestowed an
honorary doctorate in 1976 in recognition of his
long-term service to private education.
Just how effective the VFIC has been is revealed by
a look at Sweet Briar's share of the proceeds over the
past twenty-five years — $1,645,000. which former
President Anne Gary Pannell once referred to as
"bread and butter money" that helps to keep inflation
at bay. (Incidentally. Mr. Boushall has served with
enthusiasm on the VFIC's board throughout those
twenty-five years.)
The 1978 fund, distributed to the twelve member
colleges in June, amounted to $1,560,000. or an average
of $130,000 per college, the highest per-college share
going to participating colleges from any of the forty
similar joint college funds throughout the nation. The
fund is distributed each June according to a standard
formula: 60 percent in equal shares and 40 percent on
the basis of undergraduate enrollment in the respective
member colleges. Sweet Briar's share of the 1978 VFIC
fund was equivalent to more than $1 .500 of each full
time faculty member's annual salary. Bv another
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
Hampden Sydney. Va
Founded 1776
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
Richmond, Va
Founded 1830
HOLUNS COLLEGE
Hollins College. Va
Founded 1842
ROANOKE COLLEGE
Salem. Va
Founded 1842
East Building, Hollins
Bvars Hall, Emon & Henrv
Tower, R-MWC
statistical measurement, it was equivalent to half of
the library budget (staffing and book acquisitions) or
two-thirds of a departmental budget for the Natural
Sciences.
VFIC funds are unrestricted so that the colleges can
apply them to their most acute and immediate
non-capital needs. President Harold B. Whiteman, Jr.,
currently serving as vice president of the VFIC and
chairman of two of its key committees, reported to the
trustees that Sweet Briar's share was allocated to faculty
salaries. "There is in our view no more important
single item in our budget," said Dr. Whiteman, "if we
are going to attract and hold top-quality instructors
at all faculty levels. The instruction they provide is, in
turn, a major part of the justification for high-cost
independent colleges and universities today. Unless
such institutions have excellent teaching, programs,
facilities, and student bodies, there is little reason for
them to continue to complement, as well as to compete
with, the public institutions."
Dr. Whiteman pointed out that continuing inflation
has resulted in an actual loss of "real income" as
reflected in steady-value salaries, despite substantial
increases in dollar levels during the past couple of
decades. "Although one does not want to be 'part of
the problem' of inflation by contributing to the upward
spiral, those on the lower side of parity must not be
allowed to become its victims."
What is it that attracts corporate dollars to Sweet
Briar and her fellow institutions? Why does professional
business management contribute money to twelve
Virginia collegiate institutions, with no strings attached
and no expectation of influencing either curricula or
content? There's no one answer. But the common
denominator appears to be both an historical under-
standing of pluralism in education and an instinctive
affection for the liberally educated person.
From a practical standpoint, what's the alternative?
Aside from the compelling philosophical reasons
for keeping our private sector vigorous and varied,
consider this fact: the services that the independent
colleges provide the Commonwealth at no cost to the
Virginia taxpayer would require additional tax funds
equivalent to the state appropriations now allocated
to ten of our well-subsidized four-year state colleges.
It's unthinkable that already hard-pressed taxpayers
would tolerate this additional drain upon the state
treasury. And it is equally unthinkable that our inde-
pendent institutions should be harnessed by the
bureaucratic constraints that invariably come with
government funding.
Because business would be directly affected, man-
agement cannot idly observe the crisis in higher
education from the corporate tower. It must come down
and get involved. Terry Sanford, President of Duke
University and former Governor of North Carolina,
believes that "We are drifting to a system of higher
education totally dependent upon the political process
for financing. The future of our dual system of higher
education is in doubt because independent colleges in
America are in jeopardy. Our greatest danger is that
we will give away our strongest asset — competition."
One of our distinguished Philip Morris directors,
Robert E. R. Huntley, the articulate president of Sweet
Briar's favorite and most romantic neighbor, Washing-
ton and Lee University, has footnoted President
Sanford's dire admonition:
"The fact that this school is 230 years old does not
mean that it doesn't know how to die. Only public
institutions have never developed a death mechanism.
Private institutions know how to get sick and how to
wither and how to die, and once they begin to get sick
and wither the problem becomes absolutely insuperable,
particularly in these days of relentless economic
pressures."
Fortunately, the Virginia Foundation's record over
the past quarter-century gives convincing evidence
that there are many concerned businessmen who are
determined that the Sweet Briars and the W&Ls, with
all of their tradition and character, do not merely avoid
getting sick and dying but continue to flourish and go
on providing freedom of choice between the public and
LYNCHBURG COLLEGE
Lynchburg. Va
Founded *<»03
SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE
5weet Bnar Va
Founded 1901
MARY BALDWIN COLLEGE
Sla union. Va
Founded 1842
rTri'ifcrV
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY
Lewnglon Va
Founded 1749 |fc 1j*
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Morton Hall, Hampden-Svdnev
Hunt Building, Man Baldwin
Trexler Hall, Roanoke
private sectors.
The stake of business in our educational system has
never been more clear cut and compelling. Corporate
financial aid. once regarded as an optional philanthropy,
is now patently a necessity to preserve the pluralism in
which free enterprise in education and free enterprise
in commerce have supported each other for their
common good.
One might say that this concept of pluralism goes
back to the Book of Proverbs, which says. "In the
multitude of counselors, there is safety."
Former Governor Colgate Darden has been one of
the most articulate advocates of a dual system of
public and private institutions, each sector complement-
ing the other and together providing the diversity and
strength of pluralism to the total education enterprise.
When serving as President of the University of Virginia.
Governor Darden considered it unthinkable that
Virginians would ever tolerate a single monolithic
system of higher education controlled by government
and supported entirely by our taxes.
In a memorable 1955 speech at Sweet Briar, he
acknowledged that "The tax-supported institutions have
an enormous advantage in that they draw upon the
resources of the state, but this advantage is never free
of the danger of subservience to political power and the
control of the institutions for partisan purposes. We
have been free of this in Virginia, and I trust that we
shall be always, but only a person blind to the lessons of
experience can fail to recognize the ever-lurking danger.
The private institutions are very strong bastions of
freedom of thought and expression. Therefore, their
welfare and progress are vitally important to a free
society. The independent colleges are indispensable
allies of our system of public instruction."
Clearly, a Virginia tradition of excellence has been
written with the pen of academic independence. The
private institutions have been outstanding in open
intellectual competition with our state-supported
schools. But in recent years they have been at a disad-
vantage when it comes to financial competition.
Legislative appropriations by Virginia's General
Assembly for the 1978-80 biennium included a record
$760 million to support the State's burgeoning system
of colleges and universities, a third more than the
preceding biennial appropriation. This means a tax
subsidy of more than $2,000 per year for each student
in a four-year institution. And yet, for all of that, the
tax-supported institutions are aggressively increasing
the vigor of their demand for contributions and grants
from private (non-alumni) sources, including corpora-
tions, thus inevitably diminishing the not-unlimited
supply of dollars available to Sweet Briar and her sister
institutions that don't have the advantage of tax
resources.
My successor as Chairman of the Virginia Founda-
tion, Preston C. Caruthers of Arlington, himself a
former president of the State Board of Education,
comments, "For the tax-supported college, private
funding is the frosting on the cake; for independent
colleges, it's the cake itself."
A large percentage of the tax dollars paid by business
supports public education, and in Virginia, eighteen
cents of each general tax dollar goes to the State-
sponsored college and university system. It seems
judicious to ensure the value of that investment in public
education by voluntarily helping to preserve and
strengthen the private institutions, because private
colleges have traditionally provided a yardstick in terms
of freedom of administrative and curricular manage-
ment, of intellectual inquiry, the costs of education to
society, and the quality of education.
And let me emphasize that tuitions are no measure
of the comparative costs of the two kinds of education.
Recent studies have found that the yearly costs per
student are lower in the private institutions. The
efficiencies of private enterprise are manifest in educa-
tion as well as in business.
Moreover, personal relationships between faculty and
students are closer. And recent studies have found that
needy students in private colleges are more likely to
graduate than those in public colleges.
BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE
Bndgeu-ater. Va
Founded 1880
RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE <c
Ashland, Va
Founded 1830
B»|
EMORY AND HENRY COLLEGE
Emoiy. Va
Founded 1836
RANDOLPH-MACON WOMAN'S COLLEGE
Lynchburg, Va
Founded 1891 ]/ ^
Boatwright Library, Univ. of Richmond
Blackwell Auditorium, R-MC
Knight Library, Lynchburg
Business also has an interest in the acquisition of new
knowledge. And the freedom of inquiry that is the
hallmark of private colleges facilitates such discovery.
As businessmen, we know too well that government
regulations often are capricious and repressive. Some of
the most eloquent protests against unwarranted
intrusions by government into the private sector have
been delivered by presidents of private colleges, and we
welcome them as our allies in the continuing struggle to
preserve free enterprise.
There it is, then. Free enterprise in commerce and
its counterpart in education joined in a venture of
surpassing importance to both.
Meanwhile, back in VFIC's Lynchburg headquarters,
the task goes on apace. The staff itself is a microcosm
of the member colleges: Washington and Lee, Hollins,
Hampden-Sydney. Emory & Henry, Sweet Briar, that
latter academic star represented by Lea Booth's wife,
Mary Morris, class of 1950.
Alumnae are justifiably proud of Sweet Briar. They
should be proud also of the statesmanlike role and
creative part Harold Whiteman plays in the vitality and
success of the VFIC. He has put his imprimatur of
class and style on the organization, serves as chairman of
important committees, is currently Vice President and
scheduled to be President next year.
Most important of all, alumnae should be aware of
the magic melding of college and commerce. They have
made history through a marriage of interests that
benefits us equally.
Ross R. Millhiser, native of Richmond and current resident of
Rumson, New Jersey, is Vice Chairman of the Board of Philip Morris
Incorporated, in New York City, where except for the the period of
World War II he has held various positions in most departments,
starting two days after graduation from Yale. There he was a classmate
of Sweet Briar President Whiteman.
Millhiser has been an active and productive trustee of the Virginia
Foundation for Independent Colleges for seven years, two of them as
Chairman of the Board while distribution records were set. An eclectic
scholar, a lexicologist and a perceptive businessman, he often speaks
and writes about the values of a broad education — what he calls the
"liberating arts" and in which he includes basic sciences. He also
stresses the development of character, diligence and leadership as
essential educational ingredients.
His contributions to education have been recognized by Hampden-
Sydney College's award of an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and by
election to the University of Richmond's chapter of Beta Gamma
Sigma, a national honor society in business administration. His family
has followed his example of attending an independent college. Mrs.
Millhiser, the former Eleanor McGue of Richmond, graduated from
Trinity College in Washington, D. C. Two of their sons attended
Georgetown; one, Cornell; and their daughter, Duke. One of the sons is
now a law student at Washington and Lee.
Millhiser, who is a director of two other Virginia corporations, Best
Products Company and First & Merchants National Bank, has been
widely quoted when speaking about corporate support for private
colleges.
Ross R. Millhiser
HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
Hampden Sidney. Va
Founded 1776
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
Richmond Va
Founded 1830
HOLLINS COLLEGE
Hollins College Va
Founded 1842
ROANOKE COLLEGE
v > Salem, Va
Founded 1842
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Long Range Planning and the Alumnae
by Gregory T. Armstrong
June 1978 brought to a formal conclusion the work
of the Planning Commission and saw the writing
of my final report, which has gone to those who
participated in the several task forces and special
committees of the Commission and to all faculty,
administrative officers and Overseers of the College.
It is not my purpose here to repeat or summarize this
report, but I should be pleased to send a copy to
interested alumnae. My concern in this article is two-
fold: to underline and report on the part which alumnae
took in long-range planning over the past two years and
to emphasize the on-going importance of planning for
the future health and success of Sweet Briar.
First, you may be proud of the several alumnae who
participated directly in our task forces. There were at
least eighteen from your number, including two on the
faculty, seven in the administration and four from the
Board. Three of these were also parents of students or
former students. More than three hundred alumnae
returned the alumnae questionnaire from last winter's
Alumnae Magazine. Altogether these alumnae helped
us to assess what kind of job we are doing and how we
look to our constituency off-campus. This evaluation
and this perspective on the educational enterprise at
Sweet Briar is very important. It is fair to say that we
are only as good as our product. Both your achievements
and your satisfaction with your experience during the
college years are an indication of the quality of our
performance in the classroom, library, lab or studio.
The questionnaire indicated a high level of satisfaction
with the academic program, teaching quality, extra-
curricular activities, student faculty relations, personal
growth, intellectual development, appreciation of the
arts, and preparation for community leadership. Some
areas were clearly only adequate: academic advising,
social life, some physical facilities, and preparation for
a professional career or employment. A few were
equally clearly poor, chiefly counselling services. I want
to report that attention has been paid to just these last
named areas over the past four years with dramatically
increased counselling services, a new swimming pool
and plans for new art studios and gallery, more attention
to student social needs, and greater involvement of the
faculty in career planning. The report of the Student
Life Task Force, chaired by John Savarese, stressed, for
example, the need for more informal, small-scale
social activities that were not just parties. The new
debating society and the radio station fall into this
category since they will bring our students together with
students from Washington and Lee and elsewhere.
Gregory T. Armstrong, Professor of Religion and chairman of the
department, was the chairman of Sweet Briar's Long Range Planning
Commission. His B.A. (Honors) is from Wesley an (Conn.); he holds a
B.S. (Highest Honors) from McCormick Theological Seminary and a
doctorate (magna cum laude) in theology from the University of
Heidelberg, Germany. He has received more than a dozen awards,
grants and distinctions since 1958, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the
American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church
History and other societies and has written articles and book reviews
for more than twenty-five journals, magazines and encyclopediae.
The alumnae questionnaire also provided useful
information about the further education of our
graduates. Forty-two percent of those replying have
earned master's degrees, and just over eight percent
have doctorates. Another nineteen percent are anticipat-
ing further graduate or professional study in the next
two to five years. We also learned that a significant
number of our alumnae make extensive or some use of
a foreign language in their employment and that just
about seventy-five percent make use of mathematical
or statistical skills. There is some interest in an alumnae
college during the three days before reunion weekend,
but much less in a summer alumnae college, a summer
M.A., or weekend workshops on campus. We also
learned a good deal about individual achievements and
honors, potential speakers and sponsors of internships,
and even new addresses and changes of marital status.
Most interesting and valuable, however, were the
comments to the open-ended questions. All of these
have been read at least once by me, and many have
been read and even responded to by other faculty
members or administrators. I copied a generous selection
of the replies to our question. Would you encourage
your daughters to attend Sweet Briar? and to the ques-
tion concerning alumnae activities and the image of the
College as a leading academic institution for women
and circulated these comments to our chief administra-
tors and to the faculty members on the Self-Study
Committee which is now at work for the reaccreditation
process. I should add that the copying omitted names.
Some of the complete responses to all the open-ended
questions, together with attached typewritten pages in a
few cases (but again mostly without the first page giving
name, address and class), were also copied and sent
around. I felt that these detailed and carefully conceived
replies deserved our serious consideration.
Let me share some of the concerns which were voiced
by you. As always, great importance was placed
on outstanding teachers, on women leaders and role
models in the faculty and administration, and on
attention to individual students. I think we all agree on
this, but I can't refrain from observing that these aims
don't come cheaply. They are just what make a small
private college a high-tuition institution. For high
tuition, moreover, you expect high standards, a variety
of courses, and a strong liberal arts emphasis. So do
the faculty and administration, and many replies
praised the revised degree requirements produced by
the Steering Committee of the Planning Commission
and printed in the same issue as the questionnaire. The
Mission Statement adopted by the commission is the
background or presupposition for the requirements.
Much interest was expressed in exposure to the world
of work, to career preparation and to learning math.
I think we at the College share this interest, but the
proper balance between the liberal arts and sciences,
on the one hand, and career preparation on the other is
not always easy to achieve. Increased opportunities for
internships in government, business and education are
one response of the last eight years. Another related
area of preparation for life is that of the balance between
academic pressure or competition in college and the
freedom or opportunity to find oneself. It is possible to
make the academic experience too intense, and we have
probably all heard horror stories about pre-med students
at other institutions. Similarly, there is the balance to
be maintained between an emphasis on women's
concerns and a far-out women's lib atmosphere. How
much consciousness raising is needed? When does it
become self-destructive? I'm afraid there is no clear
answer.
We on the faculty were glad to receive an endorsement
for independent studies, senior seminars, interdisci-
plinary programs, offerings in the creative arts, and
study abroad. These possibilities seem important to us.
It was even reassuring to hear from a few insightful souls
that a poor course may have a value. Likewise, we
welcome your understanding for and encouragement
of faculty research. This activity too has a price tag. but
its promotion will help us secure and retain better
scholars. And you want not only better scholars but also
better-known speakers on campus. Here the Sue Reid
Slaughter Fund, administered, as you know, by the
Alumnae Association with a faculty committee, is an
immense help. Other measures to enhance the lectures
schedule are being undertaken. You also call for more
meaningful evaluation of faculty members and instruc-
tion by students. In early November the department
chairmen met with the President and Dean on this topic,
and they will have met again in December to pursue
it further. In the meantime I can assure you that there
is evaluation by students, but it is not always as
systematic or well coordinated as we might wish.
This report would not be complete or fair without
mention of some problem areas. Concern has been
expressed — and this come from graduates of several
different years — about students' attitudes toward the
academic side of college. Many students are not as
serious as we would like or as you who were top students
might like, but this is hardly a condition unique to Sweet
Briar. We have some very good students, very serious
ones, and they usually find each other, which is im-
portant for their sense of community. Individual faculty
members also seek to encourage them. The Sweet Briar
Scholars program has helped in this regard as well. It
is true that SAT scores are not as high as they were ten
or twenty years ago, but they have held fairly constant
in the last few years and do not compare unfavorably
with our sister women's colleges in Virginia. We would
like them to be comparable with the most select
independent colleges and universities, that is, the Ivy
League schools and certain others whom we could all
name but would rather not. We face a real challenge,
and some of you have pointed out this fact to me, in
competing with Dartmouth, Princeton, Williams. Yale
and other schools. We were not competing with these
particular schools a dozen years ago, but they are
serious competition today along with the traditional
competition of the leading women's colleges. I am
persuaded that the decision of several leading men's
colleges to go co-ed has done much more to call into
question single-sex education than the decision of some
women's colleges to do so. How do we compete? How
do we get top secondary school students to consider
Sweet Briar as well as Wesleyan and the others?
Two other problem areas which emerge from the
questionnaire are geographical isolation and high
cost. I don't get the impression that physical isolation is a
major drawback. Most students find a way to get to
where they want to be, and the beauty of the campus is
surely a compensating factor. Nevertheless, we do not
have many of the cultural advantages of a metropolitan
location, and we must in turn develop and promote the
advantages of being in the country. Environmental
studies and outdoor activities are two ways in which this
is being done. High cost, unfortunately, is a fact of life
for private higher education. So also is the inflation
which guarantees a still higher cost next year. A larger
student body would help the cost factor; so would a
slightly smaller faculty. However, very few reductions
can be achieved in faculty size apart from programmatic
cuts. Possibly the very largest departments could absorb
a reduction in staff by a fraction of a position or even a
whole position; in general, cuts in faculty would produce
less variety in courses and programs and fairly directly
the elimination of one or more majors. To be concrete
and cite an example which I hope no one would permit
to occur, my department, religion, could not offer a
major with a single teacher, and we are not the only two-
member department. It is possible that fractional
reductions can be accomplished by greater dependence
on the offerings at Randolph -Macon Woman's College
and Lynchburg College, but will we be able to sell such
arrangements to prospective students?
In viewing the cost of a Sweet Briar education it is
essential to keep in mind that we do provide a kind of
personal attention which is becoming rare in higher
education. Indeed the large, more prestigious and more
expensive private universities are often so oriented to
graduate and professional study that they don't provide
undergraduates the attention we give ours. It is also
essential to know that the part of the cost which goes for
room and board is about the same at every college
whether public or private and that financial aid is
generally more available and comes in larger amounts to
the private college. Few, if any, of the applicants ad-
mitted to Sweet Briar fail to receive the amount of
financial aid indicated by the College Scholarship
Service, the national agency for assessing family need
in this regard. My plea, if pleas are permitted in these
pages, is to talk to us, that is, to our financial aid officer,
before ruling out Sweet Briar because it is too expensive.
You may miss the educational opportunity of your
daughter's life.
Finally, let me say a bit about a matter closely
related to student body and faculty size and to the
cost of higher education, a matter which the Planning
Commission devoted considerable attention to and
which many of you have addressed in your question-
naires, and a matter which you have all generously
contributed to for many years. I refer to faculty salaries.
Faculty salaries at Sweet Briar are good for an
institution of our size and type. We rank roughly just
inside the upper third of colleges without graduate or
professional degree programs. They are not good in
comparison with universities, whether public or private,
nor with public community college systems; the gap for
full professors in these comparisons ranges from $3,000
to $7,000. if we were to have the same percentile ranking.
We are fully reconciled, however, to living within our
means and within our own category of institution. The
Planning Commission does recommend that we seek
to achieve an overall compensation level for full,
associate and assistant professors which will put us in
the top twenty percent. By my calculation to have done
so in 1976-77 for the number of full-time professors at
these three ranks would have cost $47,520. In 1977-78
it would have cost $74,460. But please bear in mind
that this makes no allowance for proportionate increases
for part-time faculty members, administrative officers,
and other employees of the College. For 1977-78 the
minimum compensation (salary and fringe benefits)
for the three instructional ranks necessary to be in the
top twenty percent among our category of colleges (the
American Association of University Professors 1 -rating)
was: $25,220, $20,360, and $16,890. 1 think we may all
share the concern that other colleges with whom we like
to compare ourselves and with whom we compete for
students have achieved this level. It would be a
reasonable guess that these levels will move up six
percent or so in the current academic year, and Sweet
Briar's have done even better without, however, closing
the remaining gap.
I have addressed many of the concerns of long-range
planning here. By implication I have suggested how
important self-evaluation and planning are to this
college. Let me close by noting that the self-study process
for reaccreditation in which we are engaged this aca-
demic year and the first half of next under the chairman-
ship of Milan Hapala will also help us plan for the future.
Already the individual departments have examined
their offerings, their staffs, and their future needs.
Already a thorough questionnaire has been completed
by virtually all of the faculty, administration and
students. The activity of mutual consultation within our
constituency continues, and each of you may be a part
of it. Indeed, if you did not take time to complete the
questionnaire last year, it is not too late. I can promise
to read each one with care and to pass ideas along to
others. If the number warrants, we shall make a fresh
tabulation of the new returns, and I shall report this
to the Alumnae Council next fall. We want your interest
and support, we need it, and we thank you for all you
have shown already.
Summary of Alumnae Survey Results (%)
Reflecting on \ our years at SBC and the value of a Sweet Briar education to you, please give your opinion about each of the following.
Classes thru 1949
Academic program
Teaching quality
Academic advising
Career Counseling
Extracurricular activities
Personal Counseling
Social Life
Preparation for grad. or prof, study
Choice of Majors available
Comprehensive exam
Winter Term
Student/faculty relations
Physical facilities:
Library
Labs
Studios, art or music
Physical Education
Personal growth as an individual
Intellectual development
Appreciation of the arts
Professional career /employment
Preparation for community leadership 27
Classes from 1950-1969
Academic program
Teaching quality
Academic advising
Career counseling
Extracurricular activities
Personal counseling
Social life
Preparation for grad. or prof.
study
Choice of majors available
Comprehensive exam
Winter Term
Student/faculty relations
Out-
No
standing Good Fair Poor C
~)pinic
38
41
1
1
30
44
6
11
17
28
11
8
4
11
24
24
27
32
9
5
3
6
12
9
19
17
16
33
17
4
4
15
20
9
3
15
4
40
12
1
5
10
13
1
1
15
14
42
25
9
3
19
45
4
2
3
5
24
12
8
15
7
18
11
8
19
17
28
8
9
9
34
32
10
3
23
41
9
3
24
32
12
4
4
11
19
12
6
5
lip 27
26
8
7
7
68
68
9
67
8
11
48
53
21
8
4
3
30
75
30
38
56
31
8
10
9
24
21
40
44
22
68
31
20
4
38
51
16
9
26
31
74
20
9
6
32
49
11
5
24
3
36
61
65
15
3
1
Classes from 1950-1969 (com.)
Physical facilities
Out- No
standing Good Fair Poor Opinion
Library
42
87
12
1
1
Labs
14
61
27
4
29
Studios, art or music
19
50
18
6
42
Physical Education
20
62
39
5
9
Personal growth as an individual
48
68
20
6
2
Intellectual development
49
82
10
3
1
Appreciation of the arts
55
57
26
6
1
Professional career/employment
19
36
39
28
13
Preparation for community
leadership
50
41
30
8
15
Classes from 1970
Academic Program
40
30
8
Teaching Quality
31
40
7
Academic Advising
14
21
22
17
4
Career Counseling
1
5
17
45
9
Extracurricular activities
15
33
17
7
4
Personal Counseling
6
14
17
21
17
Social life
11
32
21
13
1
Preparation for grad. or prof.
study
23
23
10
6
3
Choice of majors
15
39
15
6
2
Comprehensive exam
16
20
10
7
16
Winter Term
33
10
2
2
12
Student/faculty relations
34
39
1
1
1
Physical Facilities
Library
31
35
10
1
2
Labs
25
31
6
2
13
Studios, art or music
14
25
8
3
23
Physical education
13
37
13
7
7
Personal growth
29
33
11
4
Intellectual development
30
39
7
2
Appreciation of the arts
26
33
14
2
2
Professional career /employment
13
23
18
16
6
Preparation for community
leadership
18
29
13
5
10
Founders' Day Address 1978
What is College For?
by Josiah Bunting, III
Your gracious president, Harold Whiteman, invited
me here, and I accepted his invitation with much
pleasure. I first visited Sweet Briar fifteen or twenty
years ago, around this time of year, early October. I
was a freshman at college in Lexington, Virginia, and
not at Washington and Lee (or, as they call it, Dubyanell).
I remember that visit to Sweet Briar with chilling,
preternatural clarity: so unsuccessful was it, so intimi-
dated were my friends and I by the celebrated ambiance
of this sprawling arboreous place supposedly the
collegiate station of the cross for famous wits and
heiresses, fabulously beautiful ingenues from Texas and
other southern places. I remember how miserable we
cadets were, how unappreciative and uncompassionate
we thought Sweet Briar girls were towards us. (In I960
there was no discussion of whether the students were
ladies, young women, girls or persons, which shows the
era did some things sensibly: nowadays I understand it
is the form to congratulate new mothers, when
appropriate, on having given birth to "baby young
women.") Anyway, the girls welcomed us to mixers as
a Newport hostess might acknowledge one's arrival,
an hour late, for tea. But of course your predecessors
were as puzzled and bemused by us as we were terrified
ofthem.
I don't know if cadets from VMI come here any more.
A number of irritating problems make it difficult for
the younger ones to visit. In my day it was almost pro-
hibitively difficult. Young people did not easily engage
in any case: they fenced, jousted, delivered ambitious
monologues about their ambitions, and felt guilt. For
cadets there were other dismal vexations: we could not
drink at all, nor smoke in a public place; we could
neither own nor drive cars nor wear civilian clothing.
We had to be back in Lexington by midnight on pain
of truly harsh punishment; we suffered unattractive
nervous disorders of the skin, particularly the facial skin,
and wore the unspeakable haircuts the regulations
demanded, the kind of haircut Robert deNiro wears in
Taxi Driver or that which might identify a patient after
treatment for scalp lice. We did not smell good, either,
after two hours in a 1946 school bus negotiating the
perilous macadam curlicues and whorls of Route 60
from Buena Vista to Amherst. I remember some curves
were so remorselessly sharp that you could see each side
of a regular four-sided farmhouse as you went around it.
It would become hot in our ridiculous conveyance,
lurching and gagging with each shift of gears. Cadets
President of Hampden Sydney College, Virginia, Josiah Bunting, HI,
was graduated from VMI in 1963 with honors in English, third in a
class of 180. At VMI he was first captain of the Corps of Cadets,
captain of the varsity swimming team, president of the Timmons Music
Society and associate editor of The Cadet. As a Rhodes Scholar,
Bunting went to Christ Church, Oxford, where he earned B.A. and
M.A. degrees in history in 1966.
He served as an officer in the U. S. Army, 1966-1972, and was assistant
professor in the Departments of Social Services and History at West
Point. From there he went to the U. S. Naval War College, where he was
acting head of the Department of Strategy. From 1973 to 1977 he was
president of Briarcliff College.
President Bunting is the author of The Lionheads and articles
published by the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Harper's,
Playboy, Esquire and the Commonweal.
10
in the back would get sick. It is always people in the
backs of buses and cars who become ill.
As first -year men we owned only one or two uniforms,
and though we used to rub Aqua Velva into them, it
didn't really do the job. Also we were required to wear
over-the-calf garters, which kept falling down, or off,
and our gray uniforms not only did not have natural
shoulders, they did not have pockets. Frightened,
nervous young men particularly need pockets; without
them they are reduced to walking around with their
hands clasped behind their backs. All right for Prince
Charles or Halston but not for military cadets.
One could make the catalogue thicker, could
animadvert to those with whom we thought we com-
peted, languid laid-back young men (boys) from Virginia
and UNC and, of course, Dubyanell. They were tweedy,
had Austin-Healeys and liquor, cigarettes, no curfews,
pockets and friends. Marijuana had not in that
pleistocene age been invented, though Aldous Huxley
had guessed at its existence, but I'm sure those rivals
would have known where to get it if it had been.
Presumably the penalty for possession at VMI, in I960,
would have been several consecutive life sentences.
Later on I married a female person from a woman's
college outside of Roanoke. I read her fund-raising mail
from this institution and have also read John Updike's
novel, Bech — A Book, much of it perhaps set here at
Sweet Briar. So I keep up with women's colleges. I even
worked at one once.
Here I pause, preparatory to launching into that
part of a speech known as the message. No matter
how sophisticated or cerebral, we cannot bear long
speeches. We need to remind ourselves, both speaker
and speakee, of Ambrose Bierce's wicked definition
of a bore: "Someone who talks when I wish to talk."
I am afraid that my topic "What is College For?"
must seem both boring and conceptually naive. Scholars
and creative people are put off by it; parents routinely
misunderstand its premises; administrators spend all
their time running from one airplane to another in their
wild forays after more and more money. Rarely do they
think about what they're doing. (A great recent exception
was Robert Goheen at Princeton, who hid in a library
office one-half day a week to think.) Businesses think
they know what college should be for: it is to train
ambitious young people habituated to asking how? but
not why?! The television networks and the public — more
particularly the alumni of many colleges — see their
institutions as the loci of frenzied athletic spectacle, of
athletic competition and collegial success which often
induces grown men to steal and cheat or cry with joy
and rage. (While I'm on the subject, incidentally, I
hope the University of Virginia loses ten thousand
football games in a row before it amends or abridges
its entrance requirements to permit the unqualified to
enroll.)
You students must think about the question, however.
"The unexamined life is not worth living," as every
freshman knows, and despite the manifold and ruthless
pressures which conspire to force you to think that your
undergraduate years are years of preparation for
graduate schools or business or whatever-these things
notwithstanding-(or in spite of them), do not forget
Pasternak's reminder that "education ispart of life as
much as preparation for life." I mean "education" now
in its formal and restrictive sense, as a "college educa-
tion." Do not, until the latest possible juncture, allow
yourselves to be advised to take thus-and-such a course
because it is required by some graduate school or
encouraged by a corporation for which you may wish to
work. If there is one thing that college is not for, it is for
service as a training ground for business or graduate
school. Take a course, visit a gallery, perform an experi-
ment, write a poem, not for what material advantage
such things may ultimately confer, if any, but because
such activities are good in and of themselves, because
you wish to do them or (of course) because the program
in which you have carefully enrolled yourself requires
you to do them.
It is not the purpose of your four years at Sweet
Briar that your minds be trained but that you be
educated. This distinction between training and educa-
tion is absolutely fundamental, though it is not, funda-
mentally, an absolute one. It seems to be that training
implies habituating people to doing things with un-
thinking facility, with as little active intellectual en-
gagement as possible. Someone being trained to "run"
a computer or "run" a train or "run" an agency is be-
ing accustomed, obviously, to learn how to run these
things, but not why they should be run. The trained
person is skillful in the execution of assigned duties;
the educated person understands the ultimate purposes
to which her skills in her job will be put, how what she
does in her business or her profession combines with,
informs, refines, contributes to what others are doing.
The educated college teacher, let us say, in English lit-
erature, does not ignore or discountenance the scholar-
ship and pedagogy of the chemistry or history pro-
fessor: rather she sees the larger object at which both
are aiming.
College is "for," therefore, this fundamental reason:
To get students used to asking why. To make them
skeptics, to make them hungry for evidence, habitually
inquisitive and curious, both relishing what an his-
torian once called the "joy of learning singular things."
and educated to relate those things to things already
noticed and known. And there is no necessary anti-
pathy, no conflict between the acquirement of skills, to
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use that ghastly phrase, learning "marketable skills,"
and being an educated person. The inquisitive person,
the why-sayer, need be no recluse or crank: she may be
what the English call "awkward" or "difficult," but,
considering what is gained, the loss is insignificant.
What else is college for? Two other things in
particular. The first of these is related to the
development of a skeptical or inquiring temper. A four
years' undergraduate education, a liberal education,
should get young people used to thinking things
through, to thinking at length, to ruminating, if you
will. The capacity for sustained hard thinking is the
most difficult of all acquirements to develop and sus-
tain — or perhaps the most difficult but one: the reali-
zation and sustenance of a religious faith. Something
there is in the human character which does not like to
think hard and long, which predisposes it to spear, if it
can, the bright gash of inspiration which lights the
mind suddenly, as lightening lights a dismal char-
acterless landscape. Equally something which does not
like to address the consequences and ramifications of
those blazing flashes. The ability for sustained hard
thinking is a quality which the educated young person
must bring to his duties as a citizen of this foundering
republic, in which most of us do not so much as even
exercise the voting franchise for which our forebearers,
particularly our Virginia forebearers, sacrificed their
fortunes and their lives. How many educated citizens
who sneer alternately at the controverted incompe-
tence of President Carter and the simplistic nostrums
of the Republican leaders — how many have stared
cold-eyed at these people and their policies? How many
have thought through the possible consequences of
large arm sales to the Saudis or the decision not to
build the B-l bomber, or wage-and-price controls?
Properly conceived, a four years' education with a
sound insistence on supervised work in history and lit-
erature, mathematics and the sciences, the fine arts,
will predispose a student towards thinking deeply, per-
haps, decisively, about issues great and small, civic and
familial, political and aesthetic. The student of history,
especially political history, will learn prudence and
forebearance in judging contemporary affairs, will
learn again the maddening intractability of contempor-
ary political problems, which those in government must
address without perspective, with emotions inflamed,
tired, and sometimes disillusioned. The student of
mathematics will acquire the habit of rigorous, logical,
orderly precise thinking, systematic thinking (for
which, incidentally, so many little girls have been told
they are unsuited — that is, for the study of any mathe-
matics, that work in these disciplines in almost wholly
the province of adult males!).
I am led to speak also of what is called quality. We
have drawn the distinction between education and
training, insisted on the development of the curious
and inquiring intellect and,, next, of the mind which
can think at length with logic and without debilitating
fatigue. The mind which can discern, which has de-
veloped a canon by which to measure quality, a taste, a
taste for quality and an insistence on it — this too is
something which a college should labor to educate.
American popular consumptive culture and mores in
1978 are an ugly texture of the tasteless, the sham, the
tawdry, the gimcrack. We are grotesquely self-absorbed
and self-conscious, and we are even more self-indul-
gent. Self-indulgent particularly in getting and spend-
ing.
We do not insist that the material goods which make
our lives comfortable, and perhaps even elegant, be
only beautiful but also functional; but are not the most
beautiful objects of utility those most suited to func-
tion? Yet how suited to function are the perfectly hide-
ous hulking automobiles which we manufacture and
sell at the rate of ten million a year to persons who
cannot afford them and so lose themselves in debt to
possess objects monstrous in their ugliness of design,
inefficiency of performance and shabbiness of con-
struction. Notice our collective preoccupation with
labels, or logos as they are called: our insistence that
they be put not on the inside but on the outside of our
clothing, our luggage — speaking of which, I submit
that the dullish-brown and red-clay motif, with logos,
and the ghastly Naugahyde fabric of which it is made,
combine to make Louis Vuitton luggage the worst-de-
signed and manufactured object cynically produced for
the status-conscious since the so-called sack dress.
Quality. Each new novel of modest merit is greeted
with accolades once reserved for Henry James. That
which the television networks serve the American peo-
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pie is alternating trash and pulp of a character so
sleazy as never to lose its capacity to astonish. Popular
music, the febrile self-conscious climate of the so-called
disco-generation, the tyrannizing of the marketplace
over all other forces making for how popular culture is
nourished and changed: all this, in a phrase of
Newman's, a vision "to dizzy and appall."
If you think I am being too harsh — do you
remember the exchange on taste between Boswell
and Johnson, when the former suggested that those
with cultivated tastes for quality in things were cursed
to lives of perpetual disappointment and irritation,
because so little of what is said and written and made
is able to measure up? Johnson: "Nay, Sir, that is a
paltry notion." Of course it is paltry. Boswell was no
doubt pulling Johnson's leg, as he loved to do, ginger-
ly, but he speaks for the generality of Americans now
breathing, for this generation of spectators, fans,
passive participants who like their pleasures without
strings.
Canons, classics, quality, touchstones — college — here
is where should be provided an orderly introduction to
works of literature, music and art, designs which have
satisfied the only infallible criterion to be accounted
classics: the test of time and generations — col-
lege — here is where the foundations of your aptitude
for quality must be laid, and with as much care for
balance as for depth.
And last: we need to be able to travel with an at
least tolerable discomfort in "that speculative area
where doubt lives"; we must understand, and ever be
vigilant against, the almost overwhelming temptations
to slake our own thirst with simple answers to ques-
tions either complex or unanswerable. Irony, doubt,
self-doubt, a cultivated taste for what is risible or ab-
surd in our own behavior, "negative capability" (a
phrase that surely resonates among lettered scholars in
a college like this) — all these qualities of character, of
mind: their birth and development in an undergrad-
uate education at Sweet Briar, or any college, is essen-
tial; these are things that may immunize us against the
worst sin of all, and the most devastating of our na-
tional sins: self-righteousness.
The novelist Walker Percy, following Kierkegaard,
writes of characters weighed down by the burden of
their "everydayness." Typically, in sharp private epiph-
anies, they became suddenly aghast at this everyday-
ness, the dulling and galling round of ceaseless com-
mitments, requirements, routine things to be done to
live, to live in "society," getting the children, driving to
work, paying the sitter, being bored at work, doing the
wash, soliciting for the Red Cross, taking Tylenol for a
cold, reading a paper, getting up from the TV for a
drink, walking down a gray street in the bleak month
of windy March, candy wrappers blowing around, the
grass a brown stubble, getting the car fixed, going
through the motions of a job — get the picture? You
students have fifty or sixty years of this ahead of you.
Do not think having lots of money will immunize you
from it. Yes, of course, you have much more. You have
faith perhaps, and love, and families to love, paintings
to do and in which to take ineffable delight, Proust
and Homer, Goethe, Faulkner, Tolstoi, Jane Austen to
read, Chopin and Bach to play, the astonishing unbe-
lievably dense variety and thickness of sentient and in-
tellectual and social existence to be caught up by,
fascinated by, stunned by, fulfilled perhaps and made
happy by. And this at last is what College is For, to
help you help yourselves develop a consciousness of the
world through which you move which is sharper, more
acute in its registrations than any photographic film
yet dreamed of, to help you see the manifold and
manic energies of its peoples — how they think and feel
and act, what help they need and whether you can sup-
ply it. "Life means intensely and it means good," wrote
Browning. This line is adduced by scholars as naif, but
it is not — life will "mean good" precisely as you are
willing to embrace it, as you are able to look for and
find the varieties which delight, the questions which
your education will help you answer, the people to
know and never to hate.
That is all. Training distinguished from education.
The cultivated capacity for sustained hard thinking.
The ability to recognize and insist upon quality. The
capacity to doubt, to live in ambiguity. The developed
habit or predisposition of knowing how to find what
interests, delights, absorbs. Tolerance. College is for
these things. I hope it also will make you want to pitch
in and help solve our problems!
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Forty Shades of Green
by Julia S. de Coligny '34
Two scenes — one urban, the other rural — that evoke thoughts of Ire-
land in the minds of man; of us who have never visited the Emerald
Isle.
Had there been just a hint of clanking chains, I
could have sworn that the DC 10 departing
from Dulles on July 24 loaded with 375 passengers was
a slave ship. Wrong. It was a college group on pleasure
bent for seven days in Ireland. It was composed of peo-
ple of every size, shape, age and interest not only from
Sweet Briar but from Washington & Lee, Hollins, Ran-
dolph-Macon, VMI, Georgetown, and the State De-
partment to name a few. The Sweet Briar contingent
ranged from a family with three small boys, their
parents and grandmother on their way to a family re-
union in Cork to an 82-year-old whose Sweet Briar
granddaughter had had to cancel at the last minute.
Our bags were ticketed with three different colors
which sent members of the group in three direc-
tions — to Dublin, to Limerick and to Tralee. The first
stop for each was for three nights, the other two for
two nights. Sweet Briar's group went first to Tralee.
We had a swinging party early in our stay there to get
acquainted with each other. After that nobody lacked
for companionship, if they wanted it, and if any were
unhappy or dissatisfied they certainly kept it to them-
selves.
There was a choice of trip or event for every waking
moment with restful, informative rides on those lovely,
wide-windowed, air-conditioned buses in the capable
hands of driver and hostess who were equipped with
facts of Irish history, readings from Irish writers, tapes
of Irish tenors, folklore, jokes and songs. Or there was
a limited number of small rental cars which could go
down the narrower roads to the Gallorus Oratory and
other ancient landmarks by the sea.
The countryside we saw extended to the westernmost
tips of the Ring of Kerry and the Dingle Peninsula
down to Cork and Blarney and north to Connemara.
With almost no trees in the foreground to hide the dis-
tant view, the land lay out on either side like a green
patchwork quilt with hedges or stone fences bordering
the patches. They say there are 40 shades of green in
Ireland, governed by the amount of limestone in the
soil, and it rains some part of every day. Some of the
little villages through which we passed were like the
best of illustrations in children's books with pastel-
colored concrete houses, thatched roofs, immaculate
dooryards with clipped hedges and well weeded borders
full of gaily colored flowers under small windows with
lace curtains. And almost every other house had a "B
& B" sign out front. Such a town was Adare, through
which we passed on our way from the airport in that
state of semi-consciousness between U. S. and Irish
time when daylight has come upon you before the com-
fort of darkness was fully enjoyed. We stumbled out
like puppets on command and took pictures before we
had any standard of comparison, but I'm glad we did,
because Adare remained a standout, and we never
traveled the same path twice.
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It was as if we had been transported back centuries
in time. We saw some castle ruins in meadows
where sheep grazed, others in villages, being used as
side walls for present day shops. Old men in their
black suits with their fair skin and rosy cheeks seemed
to have endless time to sit in small groups or alone,
just staring at the stone fences. Some we met on the
road with their carts or their jaunties or driving a herd
of cattle. They always made a gesture of greeting — of-
ten a mechanical salute like a wooden soldier — but a
greeting nonetheless. There is a road machine in con-
stant use to clip the dark red fuchsia which grows in
profusion on both sides of the road. We passed little
barrel-shaped, horse-drawn caravans made famous by
the gypsies and now, still brightly painted, used by
young tourists on holiday. There were palm trees, wild
flowers, hummingbirds. I never dreamed it would be
tropical because I had forgotten about the Gulf
Stream. I remember the soft colors of the lichen on the
stones used for fences along the top of the Cliffs of
Moher, that 700-foot drop-off to the Atlantic Ocean
where O'Brien's Keep Tower and Hag's Head provide
spooky reminders of the ancient times in Ireland when
natives were on a constant look-out for invaders from
the sea.
It didn't take long to find out that everything I had
heard or read about the Irish was true! Their eyes are
smiling and they are warm, wonderful people whose
funny stories are enhanced by the charm of their hu-
mility and self-ridicule. They are full of music and
dancing and the joy of companionship. They are so de-
lighted with the sharp rise in tourism, which is now
second only to the dairy industry in importance to their
economy, that everybody connected with our travels
seemed dedicated to keeping things pleasant, no mat-
ter what short tempers our fatigue might have induced.
An example of this happened when I steamed into the
CIE sight-seeing bus station, frantic and exhausted
from being lost and afraid I would miss my one chance.
I stumbled past the driver and blurted, "Would
you please wait for me to get my ticket?" He looked
down at me with a twinkle and said unperturbedly, "I
will wait for you forever, dearie." Whereupon he
boarded his bus and drove away. But he knew there was
a second bus waiting, and he had exerted the calming
influence I needed.
They love to laugh. The clean, funny stories I
collected came just as often from those told by
the bus host during traffic tie-ups as from Hal Roach,
the famous "Seannachie" at Jury's Irish Cabaret. They
love to dance. I can still see those unforgettable young
Irish girls and boys with their pleated, embroidered,
gaily-colored skirts, weskits and blouses, their straight
backs, nimble feet and noisy clogs in perfect rhythm
with that happy music made on the tin whistle, accor-
dion and fiddle.
Because everything is closed in Dublin on Sunday,
some of us hired a taxi and went south of Dublin to
the Vale of Avoca, the Wicklow Mountains and an-
other whole feast of natural beauty. That left only one
day for discovering Dublin City, walking through St.
Stephens' Park to Grafton Street for shopping, taking
the sightseeing bus for a visit to Trinity College and
the Rare Book Room where we saw the Book of Kells
and other treasures, a stop at St. Patrick's Cathedral
where the choir boys were in rehearsal, having a chance
to buy an Irish Sweepstakes ticket at the home of-
fice, having a view of the President's house in the Park
where herds of reindeer clustered on the green and
privately-owned cows grazed and pruned the lawn and
trees owned by the government! When the long day
drew to an end and we found ourselves sipping Irish
coffee in the Abbey Theatre during intermission of
Shaw's You Never Can Tell with old friends (of a
week!), it was as if we were in our own home town.
We had seen life in action all the way across
Ireland, from the fishermen repairing their nets
on the concrete docks curving out into the Atlantic
Ocean near Cloghan, to young families harvesting peat
on The Burren, to medieval tours in restored castles, to
shopping for Aran sweaters, Waterford Crystal, Belleek
porcelain and hand-woven blankets. We could even
have kissed the Blarney Stone, if that was what we
went for. Not all of us did everything, but some of us
came pretty close. There had been something for all of
us, and no one seemed to interfere with anyone else's
pleasure. That was a tribute not only to the planners
but to the participants.
Sweet Briar has offered 26 trips to its alumnae and
their families and there have been approximately
800 different people who have traveled with us — some
as many as four or five times. The next trip on the
docket is London in May. The College has no purpose
in offering these trips except the enjoyment of its
alumnae. Other institutions may plan trips which ex-
tend for a longer time, cost more money, may be more
luxurious, but many of our travelers would not be able
to go under these circumstances. I am sure we would
admit that what we did in those seven days could have
been stretched over three weeks. The pace rendered us
null and void for an appreciable period after our re-
turn, but we had gotten a remarkably thorough samp-
ling of The Republic of Ireland. While we were reading
of lay-bys and slow-downs and hotel scarcities among
other travelers, we were thankful to be safe in our
agent's arms, bag and baggage.
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The Armistice
To the Editor:
... In November 1918. I was going on 14 and
was a student in the fifth form of the Gym-
nasium in Strasbourg, Alsace. Living in the
"Sperrgebiet," i.e., the extended war zone,
we boys at age 12 had to carry our own
passports with full (adult) responsibility for
our actions and could not be out-of-doors
after the 9 p.m. curfew nor pass through
the city gates without it. When a detail from
our school returned from the R.R. station,
which that day had been turned into a
giant emergency hospital due to the arrival
of several trainloads of wounded, our
principal addressed us saying "you are boys
no longer, you are men now."
For months before the Armistice, when
the wind was right, our windows would
rattle from the incessant drumfire of the
approaching front and, on moonlit nights,
we would be prepared to go to the cellar
when the air raid sirens started their wails.
In those days, pilots still dropped modified
artillery shells strapped to the side of the
cockpit and, in Strasbourg, their targets
were mainly the railroad bridges and station
and the Maison Rouge hotel, headquarters
of the commanding general of the southern
sector. At that the German anti-aircraft
shrapnel did more damage to the tile roofs
than the Allied bombs which mostly were
near misses.
The two weeks before that Monday the
eleventh were very tumultuous ones. The
German Nayy, when ordered to the high
seas for a do-or-die attack on the British
naval base at Scapa Flow, had mutinied
and hundreds of sailors had scattered
through the Reich and formed Soldiers
Councils which disregarded orders from
their officers and stripped them of their
authority. After having had to show excessive
deference in the streets to members of the
officers corps, it was quite a gratifying sight
now to see German senior officers running
for their lives trying to escape roving Soldiers
Council details bent on ripping off their
insignia, tassels and brass buttons, or, in the
case of general staff officers, the red stripe
down the outside of their pants legs.
That Monday morning at eleven a.m. we
were, of course, in school but before too
long we were dismissed for the duration
because our German professors had to
scramble to get their families and their
belongings out of Alsace within the eleven
days that the Armistice terms had allotted
the German army to retreat across the
Rhine. During our extended vacation we
watched the ceaseless stream of army com-
ponents going toward the Rhine, or we
watched the preparations made for the
welcome of the French army, or watched the
populace pillaging the quartermaster depots
and "liberate" white flour and other edibles
that had not been available even with ration
cards.
Meanwhile my oldest brother, a veteran of
Verdun, was lying in a hospital in Wiesbaden
and had himself appointed to the Soldiers
Council where one of his first acts was to
issue to himself a pass to cross the Rhine and
return home. My second brother was
stationed in Strasbourg, as a member of a
sappers company, building and maintaining
pontoon bridges to augment the capacity
of the two Rhine bridges. One night he
showed up with a half dozen of his comrades,
one of whom had somehow secured a copy
of the rubber-stamped Soldiers Council
pass. With the type roughly matching that
of my toy printing outfit, they had me copy
the pass and had my nine-year-old brother
sign them with a childishly scrawled "Sailor
Hummel."
On the morning of the twenty-second,
the last components of German troops left
Strasbourg by the East gate, while the
French Fourth Division made its triumphal
entry through the Faubourg National in the
west, to pass in review before its commander,
the one-armed General Gouraud, standing
on the steps of the erstwhile Imperial Palace,
now the Palais du Rhin. (On my clip board
hangs a postcard of that event showing my
father standing on the reviewing stand
behind the general, as President de la
Chambre des Arts et Metiers.)
A few days later, I witnessed the triumphal
entry of Marshall Petain, and a few weeks
later that of President Poincare, from the
window of my uncle's office in the Town
Hall on the Place Broglie, where he was
acting city manager, as his immediate
superiors had all fled with the retreating
German army.
By the end of November school had re-
sumed but, except for a few Alsatian hold-
overs, we had new teachers every two weeks
as the various French divisions were rotated
through the regained provinces and our
teachers were drawn from their officer
corps. Until the end of the semester we were
allowed to write in German or French. But
before long all answers had to be in French
in all subjects — in my case about a dozen,
including trig, chem, physics, English,
geography and history, where we found out
that the German idol, Karl the Great, was
none other than the great French idol,
Charlemagne. For those of us who had been
forbidden to speak French during the war,
this was an effort to get back into the swim,
but for some of my classmates it was a real
struggle.
Now as to the false armistice and its
significance. In 1918 there was only one
radio station available to the press, powerful
enough to span the Atlantic Ocean — the
tower in Brest. American war correspon-
dents stationed in Paris phoned their stories
to the station in Brest, from where the wireless
operator dot -dashed them to the USA.
The operator in Brest received the phone
call of the false armistice ostensibly from
Scripps Howard, whose voice he thought he
recognized. Scripps Howard has always
denied making that phone call from Paris
(see his article on the subject in the Reader's
Digest some time in the mid-thirties).
So who had an overwhelming interest in
starting a premature armistice celebration
in the USA? Most likely the German High
Command which had petitioned for an
armistice and, apparently, had a sleeper
agent in the radio set-up who imitated
Howard's voice.
The High Command had forced the
Emperor to abdicate and had laid careful
plans to blame him and others for losing the
war. It wanted to avoid at all cost that the
Allied forces might continue fighting and
carry the war to German soil and carry out
President Poincare's plan to march through
the Brandenburger Tor the way the Prussians
had marched through the Arc de Triomphe
in 1871.
With the US population dancing in the
streets in celebration of the false armistice,
the negotiators were checkmated and, at
five a.m. that Monday morning, had to
grant the request for an armistice to become
effective at 11 a.m. GMT (Daybreak in
USA).
With that the GHC had laid the ground
work for Hitler's later claim that the Ger-
man army had not been defeated — seeing
that it had stood deep on foreign soil on
November 1 1 almost everywhere — but had
been stabbed in the back by mutinous
dissidents and, of course, the Jews. And
thus too, the GHC had set the stage for
World War II. Its catastrophic miscalcula-
tion, however, was that it had counted on a
"Hitler" to come along in due time and "use"
him, but that it was Hitler who ended up
"using" the general staff. (Just ask Rommel.)
If the above GHC caper sounds far-
fetched, let me bolster it with another GHC
episode. In 1953-54 I was stationed in Berlin
as the first Fulbright exchange teacher to
the city. During free periods at the Schadow
Gymnasium we faculty members would sit in
the teachers' library where, on that particular
day, two younger colleagues, and ex-officers,
were berating the U.S. forces for their
delayed entry into Berlin in 1945, for the
lack of support of the June uprising in 1953
in East Berlin and other "soft" reactions
to Russian insults. After enduring their
jibes for a while, I suggested that so far at
least the U.S. had not trained its own con-
queror the way the German general staff had
trained General Zhukov, the Russian con-
queror of Berlin. With that the fat was in
the fire and they insisted on an explanation —
which I gave, to wit:
Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles,
the new German Reichswehr was severely
restricted in size and not allowed to have
any air force or tanks. The German general
staff, however, circumvented these restric-
tions by making furtive arrangements with
its erstwhile enemy, Russia, to train their
cadres surreptitiously on Russian soil. The
Soviets allowed the Reichswehr to do so,
provided Russian observers were present.
The Colonel-in-charge was Zhukov, the
future conqueror of Berlin.
My two colleagues, of course, refused to
believe my story. So, I suggested they ask
the elderly colleague sitting in an armchair
near the window who usually kept to himself
and had been treating me always with great
reserve. During the war he had been a
general staff officer. Almost tonelessly,
Herr von G. told them "Dr. Kirrmann's
story is correct."
On second thought you probably were
right not to ask me where I was on November
11, 1918. My letter would have used up more
space than you could spare.
Ernest N. Kirnnann
Professor of German, Emeritus
Madison Heights, VA 24572
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1911
Alma Booth Taylor's children and grand-
children celebrated her 90th birthday on Oc-
tober 29 with a party. She wrote, "It seems
amazing that anyone could live so long, and I
am very gTateful. Sweet Briar must have given
me quite a boost way back there in 1911."
1915
Francis W. Pennypacker and her sister
Mary Pennypacker Davis '16 are living very
happily in Pennsylvania at "Kendal at
Longwood," a Quaker retirement community
about a mile and a half from Longwood Gar-
dens and about six from Winterthur Museum.
Their brother and his wife live in a similar
community nearby. Frances and Mary
traveled to Washington in July to see the new
addition to the National Gallery and its
opening exhibit of the Dresden Treasures.
Lelia Dew Preston, who lives alone in a
cooperative apartment in Norfolk, VA, plays
bridge, scrabble, and mahjong, but she says
that her chief interest for forty years has been
British travel. She has two children, Betty
Braxton Preston '43, who sells real estate in
Princeton, NJ, and a son, who is president of a
savings and loan company in Newport News,
VA. In recent months she had a visit from
Helen McCary Ballard, who since fell and
broke her hip while on a cruise to the Arctic.
Her son and daughter-in-law chartered a jet to
Victoria to bring her home. She is still in the
hospital but doing nicely.
Anna Wills Reed writes that her grand-
daughter Alice Pope will graduate from Penn
State U. in June. She has been elected to Phi
Chi, the honorary psychology society.
1919
Alma Trevett Gerber writes from Cham-
paign, IL, that she is not bored. She enjoys her
apartment, which is furnished with family
pieces, and her unique collection of cream pit-
chers with lids. She is chairman of trans-
portation for several societies and also on call
for several persons. She is active in church
work (including the Methodist Cunningham
Children's Home north of Urbana),
agricultural interests, and Eagle Forum, a
political group.
After living 30 years — 12 of them alone — on
a small farm outside Corvallis, OR, Frances
Wild Bose is planning to move into an apart-
ment in town, convenient to church, library,
woman's club, shopping area, and campus. In
addition to church and club work, she enjoys
visits from her children and grandchildren.
Mary deLong McKnight, who is a widow,
has been ill for a number of years and has
lived in a nursing home in Fork, MD, for the
last two, but she enjoys hearing about Sweet
Briar.
Isabel Luke Witt continues to live in Rich-
mond, VA. with her 85-year old cook and her
youngest son, and keeps busy with church and
hospital work.
Lucy Wilson Dunlap and retired banker
husband sold their home a year ago and live in
a condominium in Kansas City. Lucy's two
sisters, who also attended Sweet Briar have
both died. The Dunlaps' one daughter broke
the family tradition by attending Vassar.
Jane Byrd Ruffin Henry reports from Nor-
folk that she is well and busy, attends to her
housekeeping, and plays an occasional game
of bridge or mahjong. She has stopped driving
but is a good walker. Her prime interest is her
family, who live nearby, and she enjoys baby-
sitting for her son's children.
Margaret Reed Collard and her husband,
both 81, live in a retirement community in
Milwaukee.
Mary Jones Nixon Nelson finds the Sweet
Briar Alumnae Club of Southern California a
lively association but her arthritis and cata-
racts prevent her from attending all of their
activities; however, she still keeps in touch
and enjoys hearing about the meetings and
parties. She used to attend many such events
with her sister Margaret Nixon Farrar '23,
who has now moved to Leisure World.
Elizabeth C. Eggleston writes from Farm-
ville, VA, "No comment on the out-drift of the
tide." However, last year Hampton-Sydney
College sponsored an exhibition of her paint-
ings, and at that time she was written up in
The Record of Hampton-Sydney College in
Virginia.
Katharine Block Raynor says that she is
in reasonably good health, lives alone, and
has a quiet life befitting her age. In October
she spent 10 days in Vermont, driving around
and enjoying the foilage.
1923
Fund Agent
Helen McMahon, Sweet Briar, VA 24595
Mildred Baird White writes from Ashe-
ville, NC, that her life would seem dull to
most, but to her a very happy rut to be in.
She continues to live in her family home since
her husband's death six years ago, filling her
days with church work, as a volunteer at the
VA Hospital in Oteen and delivering Meals
on Wheels — plus her favorite bridge game.
Jo Bechtel Barr spent the month of May
in Egypt and Greece and had a cottage at
Napa, CA, for August.
Margaret Benton Whitley, at Sweet Briar
for only one year, returned for the 50th re-
union with Jane Lee Best and Marjorie
Cannon Hills from California. She hopes the
present students know how fortunate they
are to be here. Margaret has one son and two
grandchildren, who also live in Fremont, NC.
She has enjoyed trips to the Middle East and
the Caribbean with Jane Best.
Dorothy Copeland Parkhurst has retired
and lives in Fair Haven, VT.
Ellen Brown Clendaniel, still living in
Denton, MD, retired in 1962. She continues
to enjoy bridge and travel and her work for the
Episcopal Church.
Emma Mai Crockett Owen writes of the
pleasant visit her daughter Mrs. William M.
Ewing and her husband had with President
and Mrs. Whiteman at the time of their son's
graduation from Washington and Lee last
spring. Mrs. Ewing and Mrs. Whiteman were
girlhood friends in Nashville.
Jane Guignard Curry continues to spend
busy times in her old home Columbia, SC,
and cherishes the peaceful periods gardening
in Sarasota. George is more involved rather
than less under a new president and talks
of retiring July 1, but Jane is not counting
on it. The Currys will spend Christmas in
England this year.
Beth Hall Hatcher, Fort Valley, GA, in a
recent letter to Helen Mac, reported the
sad news of Martha Newton Groover's hus-
band's death last summer. The Groovers
had a wonderful time at the 50th reunion
in '73, after which Denny was an enthusiastic
booster for Sweet Briar. Beth has three
daughters and 12 grandchildren. The oldest,
Felton, graduated from Sewanee last year;
Nancy is a sophomore at Davidson. Every
summer for the past six years the Hatchers
(20 strong) have had a wonderful vacation
at Jekyll Island.
Kitty Hagler Phinizy and her retired
doctor husband still live in the same home
they moved into in 1926. Their son, also a
doctor, lives across the street and daughter
Katherine Mackie '51 will move next door
when her husband retires from Dupont.
The Phinizys have four grandchildren.
Marie Klooz. whom we can all thank for
her wonderfully interesting, nostalgic letter
which gave a picture of "Sweet Briar Today"
at the time of the 55th reunion in May, 1978,
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must be one of the busiest of retirees. She
continues to serve in numerous capacities
which require her legal expertise and
knowledge, especially a most challenging
committee concerned with a 10-year plan
for that area of the county in which she lives.
So "there is no time to read, write, exercise
and play the piano."
Elizabeth Mason Richards, still living in
Norwell, MA, reports that their two children
and their families live in the same village.
Their six grandchildren range from 22 to
newborn and graduate school to bassinet,
and Helen is still knitting and giving book
reviews.
Muriel MacKenzie Kelly, whose home is
in Westchester, IL, joins the great -grand-
parent group as of July 1, 1978, when Michael
Jones was born. The Kellys lead a busy life.
Recent travels include Athens, Prague and
Paris last spring, New Orleans at Thanks-
giving, Christmas in D.C., and they will go
to Mexico in January.
"I don't know why I thought I would never
get old, but I do not choose or recommend it,"
writes Edith Miller McQintock. "1 have
had two strokes and have osteoporosis, so my
activities have come to a screeching halt."
More power to Edith. There's nothing
wrong with her sense of humor or courage!
From Marjorie Milligan Bassett comes the
sad news that her husband Clark died very
suddenly last January. The Milligan sisters,
Muriel, Sue and Marjorie, had a family
reunion on the Oregon coast last summer.
Margaret Nixon Test and her husband
Alfred spent the Thanksgiving holidays with
her son and his family in Menlo Park, CA,
and will leave December 22 for Fort Worth,
TX, to be with Alfred's daughter for the
Christmas holidays. They thoroughly enjoy
their home in Leisure World with its de-
lightful climate and much to do.
Virginia Thompson McElwee stopped
briefly at Sweet Briar in May on her way
home from Florida — "beautiful even in the
rain." Virginia, who lives in Union, ME,
and Polly Goodnow Blackall, living in Cum-
berland, RI, see each other frequently.
Lorna Weber Dowling and Bob, still
going along at about the same speed, cele-
brated their 51st wedding anniversary in
September. That same month their grandson
entered medical school in Houston. Their
older granddaughter will graduate from
Vanderbilt in May. The Dowlings still play
their usual golf and go back to Cleveland
each summer for a month or two.
Kay Weiser Ekelund continues her frequent
trips, the most recent to Alaska on the
Royal Viking. In October she traveled with
her club group to New York to visit the
Cloisters, the Frick and Metropolitan
museums. Kay's grandchildren are all boys
except one girl who is getting her M.A. this
year.
From Margaret "Queenie" Wise O'Neal
a report on the Macon crowd at Sweet Briar
with her: Of the five, three graduated and two
she labeled "dropouts." "All are in pretty
good shape, have grown grandchildren, but
no other distinguishing careers."
Helen Mac had a surprise telephone call
from Queenie about the scheduled visit to
Sweet Briar by her daughter Margaret Lewis
and granddaughter Lisa, who were visiting
Virginia colleges. Sweet Briar was charmed
with both Margaret and Lisa, and H.M. was
proud to show them "Queenie's" college.
1927
Secretary
Kitty Wilson Garnett (Mrs. Theodore S.),
141 1 Claremont Ave., Norfolk, VA 23507
Fund Agent
Jeanette Boone, Sweet Briar, VA 24595
Many thanks to those of you who responded
to the cards sent out by the Alumnae Office
for me. To have had responses from twenty-
five is outstanding.
Our leader Emily Jones Hodge went to
Florida in March with Gordon and they had a
visit with Marg Cramer Crane and Bill in
Venice. Emily wrote that Dickie Dickinson
Robbins' husband died a month after Dickie's
death. Ruth Lowrance Street and Gordon
spent the late winter in Palm Beach and they
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in
June. It took me longer to capture "The."
Ruth said their oldest grandchild would make
them great grandparents in October. Can any
of you top that? Not me — our oldest grand-
child is only a freshman at the University of
Delaware — she should be at Sweet Briar as
she is a fine hockey player. "We are the Sweet
Briar Hockey Team, we never know de-
feat ..." Shades of Boza Adamova and her
hockey stick!
If any of you are travelers, M.Brown Wood
is hunting for classmates to go to Egypt in
January. Her Beth is going with her. Mac still
prefers home. Emily Jones Hodge wants
classmates to join her in January to cruise the
Red Sea. By now she has recuperated from
breaking one ankle and a bone in the other in
"a fall down one step," and was anticipating a
Vermont trip in October.
Jerry Reynolds Dreisbach and Bob missed
our 50th reunion to attend their grand-
daughter's graduation at Indiana U. Bob ap-
parently picked up the Legionnaire's Disease
virus while there and he died two weeks later.
He was a distinguished engineer and inventor
with patents for twenty items in the field of
communications, the most far reaching being
the sonobuoy, vital to submarine defense. I
wish the Alumnae Magazine had space to
print his amazing .accomplishments.
Magnavox has just honored him naming their
new test center the Robert Dreisbach Acoustic
Laboratory. Jerry wrote that both girls,
Georgie and Jerry, were Sweet Briar students
for two years and, as did she, graduated at In-
diana University. She sees Martha Ehle Lesh
several times a year.
Margaret Green Shepard is "still" an active
realtor and loving it. She sounds years younger
that I am, drat it! Lib Wood McMullan be-
moans missing the reunion. She had a grand-
daughter graduating at Smith. She sees
Camilla Alsop Hyde and Ed and several
'29ers.
Hilda Harpster retired from teaching at the
University of North Carolina in Greensboro in
1970 and went back to Toledo. She has been
helping at an elementary school and par-
ticipating in church activities and AAUW
study groups, and she closes with, "Re-
tirement has been fun!" Bless her!
Virginia Wilson Robbins was entertaining
eighteen members of her family at Pinehurst
in the late summer.
Babe Albers Foltz writes that she drove to
Texas to pick up a grandson at camp. If you
were not at our 50th, please make the 55th in
three and a half years so you can see the real,
in the flesh. Babe. Some gal.
Frankie Sample Holmlund thinks no one
would remember her. I do — I can even recall
what she looked like. She writes that they live
near Tucson, AZ, in winters and on Cape Cod
in summers. It sounds like our Camp Green-
brier, WV-Belle Haven, VA-Norfolk routine.
Gretchen Orr Hill still engages in the private
practice of Social Work. A last minute health
problem kept her home at reunion time.
Anyone visiting the Cape is to be sure to call
her. Kelly Vizard Kelley and Billy spent the
summer in New Hampshire where it was "as
hot as Naples, FL." Anne Ashhurst Gwath-
mey and Pat, just retired from the practice of
opthalmology, have also (among many) just
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
Elizabeth Cates Wall is hard at work with
her antique shop in Highlands, NC. She tells
me that Rebecca Manning Cutler and Howard
have recently gone to Morocco and Egypt, no
doubt to cheer up Mr. Sadat. Cates is a real
ball of fire — the only changed thing about her
is woman's crowning glory. Mine is white.
Marion Thayer spent many years in Peru
and is now living in Chicago. She has been
doing volunteer work there tutoring inner-city
Hispanic children in reading. My last direc-
tory gives her a Costa Rica address. Martha
Ambrose Nunnally and Jim have a son who is
a Zoology professor at Vanderbilt and two
grandchildren who are students there. Their
daughter has opened a Book Rack at College
Park, Ga. Martha enjoys "retirement from
school." She says Jim still writes and hunts
(crows and snakes according to her). Emilie
Halsell Marston's family is expanding. A
grandson married in June and a grand-
daughter gave them a great-grandson in July.
She and Ruth Lowrance are real braggarts,
aren't they!
Tinka Johnson Brehme and Hall came east
last winter from San Marino and visited us on
the Eastern Shore in Belle Haven, VA. The
and 1 and the Brehmes ate ourselves around
the Shore and scarcely stopped for breath. In
a phone conversation last week they were all
agog over their daughter's visit from Teheran.
Jane Gilmer Guthrie wrote a delightful long
letter about her family and our classmates.
She says Ruth Aunspaugh Daniels is better
now after an illness — also Ruth claims to be
fat. 1 wrote her after the 50th and wrote a card
at Christmas because I thought the Postal Ser-
vice had eaten my mail — they came back "no
such address." Jane has two sons and
numerous grandchildren. She is entering the
Methodist Home in Charlotte. Sally Jamison
and Claire Hanna Kenner are her buddies.
Last on the list of good women who an-
swered our plea for news is Libbo Matthews
Wallace. I have read about her husband
Harry, Jr., their son, their daughter Dolly
(Elizabeth Wallace '53) Hartman and Libbo in
many West Virginia press releases for years as
we live in West Virginia half the year. Dolly
and John just attended her 25th at SBC. They
have a freshman son at Davidson. Harry III
was elected to the Board of Education in
Charleston, WV, in May.
Next year when the call goes out for news,
think how nice it is to read about '27 in the
Alumnae Magazine and write anything — I'll
make it news. See you in 1982!
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1931
Secretary
Elizabeth MacRae Goddard (Mrs. Stephen J.),
4115 Kendall St.. San Diego. CA 92109
Fund Agent
Evelyn D. Mullen. Raleigh Towne. Apt. #11.
519 Wade Ave., Raleigh. NC 27605
As a class we feel honored along with Mar-
tha Von Briesen for the Prize in Photography
established in her name in recognition of her
many years of outstanding service as Director
of Public Relations for the College (see Alum-
nae Magazine. Fall '78. p. 36). Bulb-selling
honors went to "Quinnie" Quintard Bond
(again top!) and to Polly Swift Calhoun ("Solo
or Singles" top seller), who won a trip to Hol-
land. (Quinnie had won a trip earlier.) And
Polly and her husband Frank were at the Rid-
ing Reunion with their horses!
We offer our sympathy to "Quinnie" in the
loss of her husband. We are saddened to hear
of the deaths of Dorothy Boyle Charles in May
and Phoebe Rowe Peters in September.
Phoebe was our Senior Class President and
was our Class Secretary for the years before I
took over in 1976. Libba Stribling Bell and
Dot Charles were roommates all four years at
SBC and had remained close friends so that
Libba was a help to Dot's son and daughter
who had lost their father just the year before.
Libba wrote to me about Dot's death just be-
fore leaving for a visit to friends and relatives
in New York, in Maine and in Virginia. She'd
found out from a cousin that there had been
an Elizabeth Stribling living in Fauquier Co.,
VA. in 1714. "So 1 am returning to haunt the
area again." said Libba.
Orla Washabaugh Edkins had the joy of
visiting a family in Belgium who had enter-
tained her husband in WW II and who had
exchanged visits with the Edkins through the
years. Living in Lynchburg, with Nancy Wor-
thington to help her get settled in, Orla thinks
it's great to be in touch with SBC friends again
and hopes to get to our 50th.
Ruth Schott Benner is another one whoend-
ed her letter that way. She had only two years
at SBC. finishing at Madison, WI, but "Sweet
Briar has always been close to my heart; my
daughter Linda had her freshman year there."
Ruth and her husband are "born lakers,"
spending long week-ends seven months of the
year at their second home on the Lake of the
Ozarks in south central Missouri.
Isabelle Bush Thomasson and Tommy had
a glorious trip last April to South Africa. Rho-
desia, and Kenya, returning home through the
Sudan and Cairo.
Martha McBroom Shipman says she's
hooked on cruises; highlights have been Len-
ingrad and Hong Kong, the latter including a
trip up the Pearl River and three nights in
Canton. Sweet Briar-sponsored tours are a
good way to run across SBC friends as Cynthia
Vaughn Price has found out, having travelled
with Toole Roller Wellford, Mary Lynn
Carlson King. Dot Ayres Holt. Eda Bain-
bridge Kolbe and Jessie Hall Myers. Jessie and
her husband took the QE II over to England
and the plane back. Helen Sim Mellen and her
husband were able to leave their 97-year-old
mothers in good care while they enjoyed
TWA's maiden flight direct from Newark to
London — speeches, champagne, and an En-
glish mayor in flowing robe!
Charlotte Kent Pinckney and her husband
were off to London with the Museum Theater
Guild in October. She took time before that to
call each of the Richmond classmates and sent
me file cards with news of each one. Mary
Cannaday Gore retired four years ago; she
had travelled to England in the spring and
then to visit her daughter in Wyoming where
her son-in-law teaches at the University in
Laramie. Virginia Tabb Moore and her semi-
retired husband have a daughter and two sons
in Richmond and a son who is a successful
doctor in Washington. Sue Haskell Harrell
and her husband have lived in their lovely
country home for 32 years; they have a daugh-
ter and five grandchildren, also two young
Labradors in place of the garden they once
had! Virginia White Tucker retired in 1974;
two years ago she lost her husband in an auto
accident; Virginia's daughter teaches 8th
grade English. Meade Laird Shackelford has
recovered enough from a serious two-year ill-
ness to accept leadership of a circle in her
church. Mary Leigh Seaton Marston does
much of the buying for the gift shop at the
Virginia Museum and, having been an interior
decorator, she is most generous. Charlotte
says, about sharing her good taste with her
friends.
Speaking of careers, Katharine Perry Dor-
feld, who earned an M.A. in Social Science at
Western Reserve U., feels that her major in
American Problems at SBC contributed to her
enjoyment of the career she retired from in
1977. In 1958 Katharine was asked to be a
member of the Board of Governors to organize
a Psychiatric Center serving a six-county area
in northern Pennsylvania. In 1973 that center
was closed and Katharine became director of
the Departments of Community Mental
Health and of Partial Hospitalization. As she
had been a child therapist she is now in her
retirement finding time to write some chil-
dren's books as well as travelling and fishing
with her husband. Their son William is in re-
search and development at the Corning Glass-
works.
Katherine Knerr Angell has had a busy and
interesting career also. After one year at SBC
she went on to graduate from North Dakota
State U. in her home town, Fargo. For seven
years she was in personnel work at McCreery's
and at John Wanamakers's in NYC (she says
it's a family joke that both stores closed when
she stopped working for them!) For the past
ten years Katherine has been involved with
Wall Street as a Registered Representative;
she is with Roth and Co. in Bala Cynwyd, PA.
and has started five investment clubs for
women. Katherine has two sons, a daughter
and three grandchildren; her older son is
manager of Philadelphia airports; her grand-
daughter Susan Griffith Callahan spent two
years at SBC (class of '77).
Jane Bikle Lane bravely wrote from her bed
in Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, where
the cause of a three-month debilitating ail-
ment had finally been found and the correct
antibiotic was being determined. There had
been several deaths in the family as well, and
Jane and her husband were looking forward to
a restful vacation in the South as soon as she
was strong enough.
Mary Lynn Carlson King was doing well at
the end of the summer after a time in cardiac
care. Ginny Cooke Rea was feeling 100% bet-
ter after the pin was removed from her hip so
she was able to enjoy the 5800-mile trip to and
from Idaho to visit her daughter.
Newsworthy bits about our children: Faith
Calhoun, Polly Swift's daughter was co-
captain of the Women's Varsity Soccer prac-
tice week before the fall semester at Tufts;
Mary Henderson Stanton wrote that her song-
stylist daughter had a new husband who is di-
rector of the Museum of Art in Newark, NJ;
Jean Countryman Presba's daughter is pro-
duction manager of a technical magazine,.
Plant Engineering, and son David is an assis-
tant buyer of supplies for the Swedish Hospi-
tal in Denver. Mary Frances Riheldaffer
Kuhn's son-in-law, LCdr. Schlicter was officer
in charge of construction of the Omaha, a new
prototype nuclear submarine. My own son
David, a metallurgical scientist, was honored
by receiving the 1977 Hofmann Prize, award-
ed every three years by an international con-
sortium, for a paper on "Fiberglass Rein-
forced Lead Composites."
Grandchildren feature in the news that
comes to me. Jane Tucker Ferrell's five must
love visiting her in the home she's lived in for
41 years; Jane finds her life satisfying, she
says, and her religion very important to her.
Wally Hubball Schwarzwalder's little Greek
Mary Ellen must be the peppiest — at IVi
months walking constantly, and her first
word was "wow"! Martha McCowen's six
grandchildren enjoy Hound Ear. the family
place in the North Carolina mountains; Agnes
Cleveland Stackhouse, remarried, has a
home at Sugar Mountain nearby.
Mary Stewart Kelso Treanor serves on the
Sierra Arts Council and the Symphony Board
in Reno. Harriet Wilson McCaslin has had a
busy summer with lots of company, the best
remedy for missing one's spouse, she felt.
Marjorie Webb Maryanov basked in the joy of
having a pool of their own this summer! Nata-
lie Roberts Foster attended the National
Workshop on Christian Unity as representa-
tive of the Presbyterian Church in the USA as
well as a meeting of the Church Women
United National Board as president of Vir-
ginia CWU.
In clearing out her house for selling it,
Nancy Worthington was glad to pass on her
mulberry SBC china to Jane Lewis Seaks '70,
granddaughter of the Rev. Thomas D. Lewis
of the Church of the Ascension in Amherst,
and one of SBC's chaplains. Nancy is never
too busy to pass on news to me: "Split" Clark
had been both a volunteer and a paid worker
for the Red Cross and City Welfare before her
diabetic stroke; Ella Williams Fauber's hus-
band reported that Ella had even jogged at
Nag's Head! Nancy also sent me a telephone
number for Peg Ferguson Bennett in Sarasota.
Fl.
Perry Whittaker Scott is still a needle-
pointer, now working on a kneeler for her
church "even bigger than the one I did for the
SBC chapel." On her needlepoint poinsettia
motif Christmas card she noted we'd soon
need to start getting ready for our 50th. A
phone call from Evelyn Mullen from Raleigh
showed she had this in mind too and would be
attending the Alumnae Council in October.
We'll be looking for her letters and try to sup-
port her wholeheartedly in her efforts toward
our 50th. Spot announcement: One of our
class members who had been regretting that
she didn't quite graduate is now working to-
ward getting her degree at SBC at our 50th —
more later!
A warm thank you for your wonderful re-
sponse to my getting-in-touch project!
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1935
Secretary
Lavalette Dillon Wintzer (Mrs. Fred), 11
Guvenne Road, Guyencourt, Montchanin, DE
19710
Fund Agent
Alice Schlendorf McCloskey (Mrs. Alice S.),
415 Sheridan Ave., Escondido, CA 92026
Your response to my letter about the death
of Virginia Bobbitt Shuffle on April 28 was
heart warming. So many old friends wrote
warm letters. I want to thank each of you who
wrote me and those of you who contributed to
the Alumnae Memorial Scholarship Fund.
Mary Whipple Clark wrote a dear letter
which brought back many memories of the
Gass of '35. On returning from Florida in
May she developed a pinched nerve in her
neck and could neither write nor type for a
month. Cary Burwell Carter writes that Nick is
still headmastering and she's still teaching.
Anne, her daughter, came back from her 15th
reunion at SBC starry eyed. Anne's husband
Rick is in real estate in Nashville and they
have three boys. She reports that Natalie
Strickland Waters has sold her lovely house
and moved into a condominium. Mary Lou
Saul Hunt writes that her husband Keith had
a hernia operation in March but that he's now
fine — still practicing law but slowing down.
Their son Kellog is at Walter Reed, a full Col-
onel and head of the Pulmonary Disease Dept.
where he will probably stay until he retires in
about five years. "Does that make me feel
old!" Their bachelor son, Bob, is still in
Washington practicing law. Her mother is 88
and going strong.
Joyce Hobart Bullard writes that she and
her husband are retired from teaching. Their
two daughters are married — each has a girl
and a boy (ages 12, 10, 6 and 3). They have a
home in Florida and a home in Germantown,
NY, and spend six months in each place. They
sold her parents' home in St. Petersburg and
bought a condominium.
Beverly Hill Furniss has not been back to
SBC since the graduation of her daughter in
1974. She and her husband spent 10 days in
May on the Gulf Coast and three weeks in
Europe in June. Since they sold their big house
and moved into a "cozy little cottage," they
find life so easy and traveling such fun they
seldom stay at home. Cary Burwell Carter and
her husband visited Bev in March and the
Furnisses stayed with the Carters in Nashville
between visits to their children in Tennessee
and North Carolina.
Judy Halliburton Burnett says that she
treasures her time at Sweet Briar on the Board
of Overseers. She travels frequently and
spends her summers at Wrightsville Beach,
where she shares a double cottage with her
children. She has five grandchildren.
Betty Myers Harding and her husband had
a delightful trip to Hawaii in April to celebrate
their 40th anniversary, a trip and celebration
they shared with Betty's twin and her hus-
band, with whom they had a double wedding.
Isabel Scriba keeps busy working for St.
Mary's, a private school, and for the new Gar-
den City (NY) Historical Society, for which she
is in charge of planning the grounds of an
1870 house, "Victorian Garden." The master
plan is being drawn up by Mrs. Alice R. Ireys,
mother of Catherine Irevs Gandel '66.
Dot Barnum Venter writes of a mini-
reunion with Cynthia Harbison Heye, who
came over from Old Lyme, CT, and Eleanor
Rust Mattern and Bob, who were there from
East Lansing, MI. They spent a wonderful
afternoon and evening remembering and
catching up on their combined eight children
and eight grandchildren.
Virginia Cunningham Brooks wrote a grand
letter after almost 40 years of silence. How de-
lightful to hear from her! She doesn't see
many Sweet Briarites in California except
Billy Crane Goodfellow and Janet Bryant
Hurlbert who pass by about once a year. Billie
has a son living in Santa Clara, and Jane, a
son in San Diego. She and Barbara Benzinger
Lindsley correspond tho' they've seen each
other only once. In June Ginny and her hus-
band Val traveled to the Norwegian coast,
Denmark, Holland and Belgium and attended
the American Bar Assoc. Meeting in NYC.
They have three children and five grand-
children. Their older son, Lawrence, is his
father's law partner and their younger son,
Alan, has his Ph.D. in Classical Archeology
and teaches in the winter at the U. of N. Iowa
and goes to Corinth, Greece, in the summer
for "his dig." Daughter Langley lives in L.A.,
divorced and doing volunteer work with the
Enterpe Opera Club. Husband Val still work-
ing but plans to cut down. Their life sounds
active, full and interesting. Her mother lives in
LA and celebrated becoming 85 by acquiring
an ardent suitor.
I tried to reach Rebekah Huber while
visiting in Norfolk in April. Becky wrote later
that at that time she was at the Kentucky Der-
by, something she hasn't missed for 30 years.
Becky still lives in the house she lived in when
we were in college. Her mother died in Octo-
ber, 1972, and Becky has adjusted to her new
life with the help of family and friends. I re-
ceived a nice note from Billy Crane Good-
fellow saying she had a daughter living in Wil-
mington and that she would give me a ring the
next time she was here. I am waiting eagerly!
Billy sees Jane Bryant Hurlbert several times a
year as they have a house in Vermont only a
few hours from Wellsley Hills. She tells me she
still has that cute giggle.
I was sad to hear from Ellen Scattergood
Zook that her husband, Dunnie, died sudden-
ly on March 2, 1978, of a heart attack at his
office. Her children have been a great source
of comfort to her. Scat was anxious to know if
anyone our age took the Sweet Briar trips. The
next paragraph will give her the answer.
Jackie Strickland Dwelle wrote that she,
Judy Halliburton Burnett, Jackie Bond Wood
and Cordelia Penn Cannon '34 spent a week at
Wrightsville Beach in the fall of '77. They had
Virginia Bellamy Ruffin and husband for
cocktails. In November she visited London,
Paris and Ireland and Rio in February with
the Sweet Briar Group. While she was away,
her daughter Susan produced a baby girl.
Jackie arrived in Charleston in time to wel-
come her home. Jackie now boasts two grand-
children of each sex. Jackie enclosed a won-
derful letter from Betty Fox Moon from Saudi
Arabia which I will attempt to condense. Betty
writes, "Warren came to Saudi in June '76
and I followed in October. We plan to stay un-
til his retirement in '79. Warren, as an archi-
tect, has joined a construction company which
is building housing for Arabian American Oil
Co. Since women are not allowed to drive in
Saudi Arabia, they are dependent on Com-
pany vans with Phillipino drivers. Betty be-
longs to a 700-member International Wo-
men's Group which meets monthly. Betty and
Warren find the experience fascinating, travel
a great deal, enjoy each others company but
miss the kids. They have five grandchildren
(three girls and two boys). The oldest daughter
is 16.
Blandina Jones Skilton and her husband
Bill have both retired after working in Orlan-
do since leaving Cuba. They have three sons
and five grandchildren (three boys, two girls).
The latest, Joseph Secrest Hilton, was born on
May 25 and named for Blandina's father.
They hope to travel and see more of family in
retirement.
Bright Bickerstaff West and her husband
Bob enjoyed a trip to Portugal, Spain and
Norway in the spring. Jeanne Delamarter
Halversen and husband had a great trip
through the Panama canal and visited their
children in Honolulu, San Francisco, L.A. and
Washington. She sees Blandina Jones Skilton
regularly in Church, but can't seem to dig up
enough S.B. Alumnae for a club.
Lucy Hoblitzell extolls the new pool and the
Alumnae Magazine — "Sweet-Briarites do
the most amazing things in all fields." She is
retired, traveling, and looking forward to our
reunion.
Jane Mitchell Robeson writes, "Gone back
to school to work on a masters in Psych. Very
hard to get the brain muscle working. Lots of
things have happened to psychology since
Freud." My thanks to Kitty Taylor Manning
for Anne Spiers Jessup's address.
Fritz and I are both well and spent a peace-
ful summer in Elkhart Lake, WI. These days
our biggest battles are with the bulge. You're
wonderful! Keep the letters coming and plan
to visit Sweet Briar in 1980. Let's make it a
grand reunion.
1939
Secretary
Katherine (Kay) Richards DeLancey (Mrs.
Robert L.), 45 Birch St., Keene, NH 03431
Fund Agent
Janet D. Thorpe, 71 Strawberry Hill Ave.,
Apt. 616, Stamford, CT 06902
I humbly beg your pardon for not writing
any news for two years! Two years ago in
October our eldest son, Stephen, was killed
in an auto accident on the New York
throughway. He was 27. Last year the time
for getting in my notes just slipped by me;
so if the news I write is a little out of date,
you will understand.
I still work full time at the insurance
company, teach Sunday School, do altar
work and am on the vestry. Last April Bob
and I went to California for my two-week
vacation, and this summer we had two
delightful camping trips in the White and
Green Mountains with our grandchildren,
3 and 18 months, and their parents. Our
other daughter, Carol, is manager of a very
successful restaurant, the Commissary, in
Philadelphia. Son Tom married a marvelous
little Dutch girl and is now getting graduate
degrees at Cornell U. My most exciting news
is that I am going on the Sweet Briar cruise
on the Red Sea and to Egypt. I hope to see
some of you there.
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Ann Parks also went on a Sweet Briar
trip — to Africa last year. She and her sister
went to Kenya and loved it! Ann has retired
and is busy doing goodness knows what and
throughly enjoying it: fishing, gardening
and cooking for herself since her mother
died.
Anne Dearstyne Cornwell had a glorious
trip to the Orient — Japan, Taiwan, Thailand,
Hong Kong, and Singapore. She and husband
Jim have six grandchildren.
Kitty Lawder Stephenson went on a
trip to England. Wales, and Ireland in the
spring of '78.
Kay Bonsall Strong is the co-chairman for
the Sweet Briar Bulbs in Princeton, NJ, and
is very busy with volunteer work in a nursing
home and state museum. She flew to
Johannesburg, South Africa, this past
winter to visit her daughter Bonnie Berge
and her architect husband, who were
expecting Kay's first grandchild this past
June. Daughter Sarah is enrolled in Colum-
bia Grad School in the dance education
program. Eldest son is a practicing lawyer
and youngest son is working in an aluminum
factory.
Jean Oliver Sartor and husband Alton
had a "glorious" trip with Jean's mother
shortly before she died last October. They
took her and her bird paintings for an
exhibit in Bristol, RI, and enjoyed their
first trip to that state. Daughter Jean made
her debut a year ago and son Oliver came
home from medical school to escort her.
Jean and Alton are proud grandparents
of two boys and a girl. Jean had stopped
briefly at Sweet Briar in the summer the
year before and saw Harriet Rogers and the
grand riding center. She was overwhelmed.
Ethel Hauber Crowe is still teaching
English and public speaking at John Dickin-
son H. S. in Newark, DE, and is experiencing
bussing of inner city students to their school.
The year before she had visited Paris, where
her daughter Patty published her first book
of poetry. Paris in the Spring. Ethel wore
out a pair of shoes walking all over Paris.
This past year she vacationed in Arizona
and California.
Peggy Roper Willis writes from Norfolk,
"I am not sure what the word retired means;
I seem to have less and less time to do more
and more. I assured a publisher last month
I was at work; have a title, an introduction,
and a conclusion! It's the 'nitty-gritty'
middle I need to write. Perhaps it is the
fault of having a house on the corner with
an open front door and back door, not to
mention the invention of Mr. Alexander
Graham Bell."
Bettina Bell Wyman lost her husband
in 1976, we are very sorry to hear. She lives
in Florida for the winter and on Cape Cod
in the summer. Her three daughters are
married and living in New Hampshire, New
Jersey, and Kentucky. Bettina does tape
recordings for the blind, runs her husband's
business, plays a lot of golf, some tennis
and does a lot of swimming and gardening —
both North and South.
A note from Audrey Siebert Snyder,
which should have been in two years ago,
I'm afraid, said that her daughter Cora was
not mentioned among alumnae children.
At the time Cora was a senior at Sweet
Briar, art editor of the Brambler, and
carrying 20 credit hours in her studies!
Audrey and her husband Harry were at
Sweet Briar for the Senior Show on Parents
Day.
Carol Carpenter Gillan says they are
still living in Houston, TX, and their three
children and five grandchildren also live
there. (Lucky Carol!) In 1976 Carol and
husband Charles had a vacation in Hawaii.
Margaret Hoyt Cogswell, who has been
missing the news of the class of '39, says
she fell off a horse and broke her shoulder,
wrist, and foot! It is the first time she has
broken anything, though not the first time
she has fallen off a horse. She sees Nancy
Catch Svien often and Augusta Saul Farrier
plus the Sweet Briar contingent who live
in Fairfax, VA. They almost have their own
club in Fairfax.
Bennett Wilcox Bartlett and husband
Harry are enjoying their retirement in a
convenient condominium apartment. They
spend their time traveling and visiting
their children and grandchildren. Their
elder son is in Pittsburgh, PA, their younger
son is in Thurmont, MD, and their daughter
is in Whiteville, NC, where her husband
has been installed as rector of Grace
Episcopal Church.
Eleanor Wallace Price says her husband
is now the president of a small precision
machine company. All their three children
are married, and Eleanor and Sam are
proud grandparents of five grandchildren.
She and Sam "did" the fjords in Norway on
a freighter. She hopes we all get together
at Reunion in '79.
Lee Montague Watts and husband retired
last year, sold their Manhassett home and
moved to John's Island, FL, where they are
building a house.
Betsy Campbell Gawthrop is enjoying
life in Naples, FL, during the winter. They
have a new son-in-law for Emmy and dote
on grandson Christopher, Beth's son. Betsy
is busy with Frontier Nursing. Last year
she and 24 others made a large needlepoint
rug with an original bird motif and sold
chances across the country to benefit the
Frontier Nursing Service. She also does
reading for the blind.
Betsy Vanderbilt Brown is now Mrs.
Henry Crampton. Henry retired from
A.T.&T. five years ago. His daughter's
mother-in-law is Hett Wells Finn, a Sweet
Briarite. Betsy now has eight instant
grandchildren! She is "partially" working
in real estate and travel, sending 20 on a
North Cape cruise.
Mary Jeff Welles Pearson moved to
Lexington, VA, in May '78. In 1977 Augusta
Saul Edwards Farrier visited Mary Jeff and
they enjoyed the Shenandoah Music Festival.
Last summer she and John went to Vienna,
Salzburg, and Munich on a music trip.
They were gone 32 days and heard 16
concerts! A year ago they became grand-
parents to a fine little boy in Houston, TX.
Augusta Saul Edward Farrier says her
daughter Elizabeth Edwards Anderson '70
has a baby daughter and a two-year-old son.
Shortly after Augusta's return from Eastern
Europe, she had a brand-new grand-
daughter, Dabney Elizabeth Edwards. The
parents, John Edwards and Cathye, also
have a three-year-old son. This makes
Augusta the very proud grandmother of
eight — four handsome boys and four beauti-
ful girls. Her two sons and their families
live in Roanoke, practicing medicine and
law respectively.
Anne Huddleston Cheek lost her mother
and father-in-law last year. She has three
grandsons 2 to 7 years. She and her husband
hope to see us at Reunion.
Sarah Tarns Nally has a great-niece, born
March 1976 and named Sarah Allison Tarns
after her! Sarah lost her husband from a
sudden heart attack in October 1977. She
was one of those joining the Sweet Briar
trip to Copenhagen last June.
Mardie Hodill Smith is still enjoying the
snow in Chautauqua, NY, after seven
winters, but they do seem to be getting
worse. Last year they were snowed in for
two days and had walking-distance parties.
They have four grandchildren, two of each
sex.
Marguerite Myers Glenn and husband
Frank spend two to three months of each
year in the Virgin Islands at Pineapple
Village, St. Thomas, in their condominium.
Four grandchildren keep them busy in Long
Beach. WA, where their son Frank, III, and
his wife run the 150-bearing-acre cranberry
farm. They annually visit Richard Glenn
and family in Raphine, VA, where he owns
"Briarwood" and 600 acres. Marguerite
also hopes to come to our 40th.
Ruth Harmon Keiser teaches learning-
disabled youngsters in 3rd to 5th grades
and loves it. A year ago she and Art went
to Scotland. They visit their daughter in
Freeport. ME, and Squam Lake in New
Hampshire. Son Marc finished his Physics
Ph.D. at Duke and is working at the Joint
Institutes for Laboratory Astrophysics in
Boulder, CO.
From Santa Monica, CA, Helen Cary
Stewart says, "Life begins at 60!"
I want to say thank you to Julia Ridgely
Howe and Ginny Wellford Farwell for their
thoughtful Christmas cards each year and
to Janet Thorpe, my only correspondent,
who is enjoying commuting from Stamford,
CT, to the Metropolitan Museum in NYC
and also the occasional classmate who comes
by to see her, like Katherine Kleberg
Yarborough from Texas.
1943
Secretary
Mary (Diddy) Christian Mulligan (Mrs.
Minot G.), 5218 Albemarle St., Washington,
DC 20016
Fund Agent
Marjorie Shugate Short (Mrs. Burton P.)
1 129 Oakridge Rd., Petersburg, VA 23803
Weesie Woodruff Angst, our able class
president for the last ten years, fell only five
short of the 35 she hoped would attend our
35th Reunion recently. She did a wonderful
job of "getting it all together" to make our
35th a memorable one. Our heartfelt thanks
to her and a warm welcome to Caroline
Miller McClintock, our new class president
and Marjorie Shugart Short, our new class
fund agent.
Five years ago we had given $7,046. For
1978, the total was a whopping $19,800, to
which the members of 1943 attending re-
union added $200 plus. We also received
generous checks from three classmates unable
to attend, Nancy McVay O'Neill, Sandy
Packard Sargent and Ginny Knowlton Fite.
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Let*s give Shug the same fine support we
gave Muie in the past! The College is most
appreciative of our generous contribution.
Reunion was a gala event enjoyed by Brooks
Barnes, Wendy Beam Hector, Sally Bryan
Allen, Dorothy Campbell Scribner, Dodie
Cheatham James, Kitty Doar Jones, Anna-
belle Forsch Prager, Muie Grymes Blumen-
thal, Tish Hall Bennett, Posy Hazard Potter,
Marguerite Hume, Esther Jell Holland,
Primmy Johnston Craven, Lucy Kiker Jones,
Tookie Kniskern White, Fay Martin
Chandler, Caroline Miller McClintock,
Frances Gregg Petersmeyer, Libby Corddry
Jones, Clare Eager Matthai, Roselle Faul-
coner Sales. Tish Ord Bonbright, Harriet
Pullen Phillips. Betty Schmeisser Nelson,
Byrd Smith Hunter, Frances Taylor Trigg.
Marjorie Shugart Short, Weezie Woodruff
Angst, Karen Norris Sibley and Prentiss
Jones Hale.
Everyone loved the art work displayed in
renovated Benedict. Dodi brought many of
her lovely paintings, as did Fay, who had a
recent showing at Mills Gallery in Boston.
Annabelle gave copies of her new children's
book. The Surprise Party, to the book store
to be sold. She also brought illustrations
she had done for calendars. Ann Jacobs
Pakradooni was responsible for the official
Pennsylvania Bicentennial scarf and poster
which she sent to be displayed.
Four husbands added greatly to the 35th
get-to-gether: Weezie's, Roselle's, Harriet's
and Tookie's had an unforgetable time,
I am sure — surrounded by a bevy of beauties!
You may be interested in these statistics
that Weezie gave me. Of our class of 158,
78 of whom graduated, 62 returned her
questionnaires. Seven are deceased.
This year's first prize for the most in-
formation on one small postcard goes to
Janice Fitzgerald Wellons! The Wellonses'
daughter Bennett graduated from Chapel
Hill in May after an exhausting year as
president of Tri Delta and a double major
in Journalism-Radio, TV, motion picture,
specialing in advertising. She now has a job
in Richmond (the new Atlanta for the
young.) Their middle daughter presented
them with their first grandchild and they
live near in Raleigh. In June everyone was
together at Hilton Head for a week. Janice
and Kim then took off for a week in Switzer-
land and then a cruise on the Royal Viking
around Norway and to the land of the Mid-
night Sun. A part of their group was Robert
Young, of Sanka Coffee — Marcus Welby
fame, and his family.
Betty Schmeisser Nelson is involved in all
sorts of volunteer work — Sunday school,
church fellowship board. Republican,
Women's Club Board and enviromental
awareness in the Bridgeport schools.
Husband Karl has retired but is so involved
in civic activities that "lunch" presents no
problem.
Betty Belle Launder Butin's husband
practices medicine from 7 a.m. -7 p.m.
everyday except Sundays! Their oldest son.
Rick, has just started medical school. Son
#2 has graduated from Wheaton College
and is the Director of Christian Education
in a Presbyterian Church in Iowa City. Two
younger children are still in junior high
school.
Harriet Pullen Phillips is still working
in the Family Planning Clinic in Pittsburgh.
She and her husband take bicycle touring
vacations, the most recent ones in England,
New Hampshire and our 35th reunion.
Brooks Barnes recently completed 25
years of employment at Children's Hospital
in Boston. She was given a huge surprise
party, complete with a gold watch and all
kinds of presents. The doctors, nurses and
other employees also included her mother
and other family members in their tribute to
Brooks. A very thrilling occasion, Brooks
wrote Fayette.
Buddy and Fayette McDowell Willett
and Harry and Dodi Cheatham James were
the only members of 1943 on the October
trip to Rome, which also included Joe and
Norma Bradley Arnold and Frances
Longino Schroder '44. I hope to see Fayette
when she and Buddy come over for a foot-
ball game in November.
I always get such a nice long newsy letter
from Esther Jett Holland. She and Hugh
have just returned from a wonderful trip
to the West Coast, starting in Canada and
going south to San Francisco. Their daughter
Martha was married in June, and she and
Chris live in Washington, where she is a
second year law student at Georgetown.
About 25 Briarites attended the wedding
including Nancy Pingree Drake's daughter
Pam, who is married to Gardner McCormick,
Betty McCormick Johnson's nephew.
Esther and Hugh's first grandchild was born
on her mother's 83rd birthday; so a double
celebration was held. Esther is Class
Estate Planning Chairman for Sweet Briar
and any contribution you can make in that
way will be deeply appreciated. You will
hear from her from time to time.
From Esther also comes the sad news of
Marguerite Hume's mother's death at the
age of 92, and on Marguerite's birthday.
We send our deepest sympathy.
"Reunion in May — my first time — was
sheer pleasure," writes Dotty Campbell
Scribner. She found all the "new and im-
proved" facilities have only enhanced the
beauty of Sweet Briar's setting. Dotty is the
proud mother often children, ages 34 to 13.
The week after reunion Clare Eager
Matthai had a visit from Beth Dickman
Smith, who was on her way up to get her
daughter at Kirkland College. Beth has a mail
order business, mostly imports. Clare
represented Sweet Briar in the academic
procession at the inauguration of the new
president of Colgate U.
As she sits, looking at the frosty ground
covered with leaves, wondering if she
should "stick to aspirin" or "give her cold
to Contact, Judy Snow Benoit writes the
status of her family is about the same, except
for an ex-son-in-law. She is on Falmouth's
town council which is involved in taxes,
dumps, budget, roads etc., a fascinating job.
Driving up together for reunion were Lucy
Kiker Jones, Kitty Doar Jones, Marguerite
Hume, Byrd Smith Hunter and Esther Jett
Holland. Byrd is also a grandmother for
the first time. Carter and Ed Hopkins had a
baby boy. Esther says she is now a grand-
Godmother, being Godmother to Carter.
Fay Martin Chandler's husband Alfred
won a Pulitzer Prize for The Visible Hand, a
book on business. Fay continues to paint
daily and is also doing small sculptures. She
and Alfred are going to Belgium in February
for six months.
Skip Bracher Leggett's biggest piece of
news is getting an eagle on a 345 p^r 4 golf
hole the last day of the season! She also ran
into Bob and Dot Long Cousins twice this
past summer. They had dinner with her in
Connecticut and they met again at Glen-
eagles in Scotland.
Deborah Douglas Adams has two little
granddaughters, one south — Georgia — and
one north — NYC. She recently had a
pacemaker installed, which she says works
beautifully.
I hope Dottie Friday can make our 40th
reunion. A lot of faces are not familiar at
first, but as we introduce ourselves, and
the time passes, we are all classmates once
again and have a happy time together.
Dottie is working at Montaldo's in St. Louis.
Kitty Doar Jones' son Tom has accepted
an engineering job in Franklin, VA, where
Kitty lives. He and his wife Betsy '75 and
Elizabeth Brownrigg (SBC-2000!) will be
moving from Raleigh.
Dodi Cheatham James is still doing
painted furniture. A piece done by her and
Oliva Rhodes Woodin '41 is to appear in
House and Garden, March '79, and House
Beautiful, Oct. '78. Her last daughter was
married in June.
Peggy Roudin Weinberger was sorry to
miss our glorious 35th. Her daughter Joan
married a rare book dealer and breeds
Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. Her son
Tom is married to a French girl in D.C. and
manufactures skateboards.
Last year Primrose Johnson Craven was
promoted to the executive staff of the
Museum of Girl Scouting in Southeastern
Massachusetts as Director of Adult Educa-
tion-Curator. She has also written a
brochure called History of Girl Scouting in
S. E. Massachusetts.
Page Ruth Foster is still Director of the
Honolulu Academy of Art, which opened
its new wing in Dec. '77. One son is on his
way to getting a second M.A. <and working
in Honolulu. A second son is teaching on
the Mainland and daughter Dolly is a sopho-
more in college in Santa Cruz, CA.
How nice to hear from Virginia Dewing
Dorsey after 35 years. Our most common
interest back then was Presh Shepherd,
Elizabeth Shepherd Scott's brother, a
student at Hampden-Sydney, and very much
a part of the class of 1943! Ginny has two
married daughters and two grandchildren.
She and Jack enjoy living by the shore in
Massachusetts where they golf and garden
when it is warm.
With the good Lord's help, Betty Belle
Launder Butin, is battling a reoccurrence
of breast cancer. She hasn't been back since
our 15th reunion, which she remembers as
being stupendous. We wish her a quick
recovery from her recent surgery.
Anne Tweedy Ardery is most fortunate in
that her three children live in Louisville,
where she and Philip are. Their one grandson
has an Ecuadorian mother and at 14 months
is glorious.
Elizabeth Shepherd Scott loves the real
estate business, as well as her life as a widow!
Son Hank lives in Virginia Beach, Ginny is
working in Wilmington, and Chess and her
husband live in Winston-Salem.
Leonard and Sandy Packard Sargent are
still ranching just north of Yellowstone
Park. They just spent a fascinating six weeks
in Kenya and Tanzania with old friends
working hard for the African Wildlife
Leadership Foundation to preserve
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wildlife and its habitat. She says the poach-
ing and political pressures are incredible,
but many faithful souls are working hard
for the cause. Their son Rick is in graduate
school in Tallahassee and daughter Kerri
is finishing design and architecture in
Miami. Sandy and Leonard are still working
hard for the preservation of Mqntana's
wilder lands, game and wide open spaces
for future generations to enjoy — especially
Yellowstone River, our last large free flowing
river.
The past eighteen years or so of Louise
Moore Nelson's life have been spent making
flower arrangements for museums. She has
dried arrangements in the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, Winterthur, and historical
societies in New York, Virginia and Mass-
achusetts. She has lectured for years to
garden clubs in Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire, Rhode Island and Virginia. She is
about to head the flower committee of the
Museum of Fine Arts for the next two years.
Ouija Adams Bush missed reunion be-
cause she and Bob were on a trip to Wales
and a ten day cruise on a Royal Viking ship
around Britain. Their daughter Jeanette
has taken a three months leave of absence
from her job as a legal assistant in a San
Francisco law firm to travel in the East. She
and Ouija drove to Louisville to stay with
Nancy Eagles Bannon for a weekend.
While there they saw Fayette; the Bushes'
other daughter, Louise, is at Converse
College, where she is on the admissions
staff for recuiting. Their son Stuart is in
his first year of business school at UVA.
She and Bob went to a board meeting at
SBC in November, after which all of the
family went to spend Thanksgiving at Hilton
Head.
Anne McJunkin Briber called when she
was here on her way to their home on Amelia
Island, FL. Frank is still doing a great deal
of travelling — this time to Argentina, South
Africa, Israel, Iran and Russia. All of the
family will be in Florida for the holidays,
including their two darling grandchildren.
She hopes to see Barbara McNeill Yow, who
lives in Jacksonville. While here Junk
stopped in to see Martha Bobbin McTigue's
shop in Georgetown called Temptations.
Byrd Smith Hunter is happy to report
that she and Henry are in close touch with
their children. Blount still works for Land-
mark Communication, Baird '70 is studying
and teaching at the U. Of Md. while on
sabbatical. She has enjoyed knowing
Rosemerry McClintock, Caroline Miller's
daughter, who works near her. Carter '68
has taken time out from her job as director of
career planning for SBC to give Byrd and
Henry their first grandchild, a son, Edward
Hunter Hopkins. She was recently named one
of the outstanding young women of America
for 1978.
A long newsy letter from Caroline Miller
McClintock just made my deadline. Since
she is our new class president, you will be
hearing from her from time to time. She is
as busy as a bee, involved with meals on
wheels, holding down three jobs in her
church, as well as doing substitute teaching.
Son David and his wife Anne are building a
house north of Charlotte, where he is with
a bank. Rosemerry lives in old town Alexan-
dria. Caroline and her husband live in
Germany, where he is with the JAG section
of his division. Miller is at Babcock Graduate
School of Wake Forest, and Hunter is a
senior at Converse College.
I missed Dik and Ann Jacobs Pakradooni's
33rd wedding anniversary party recently, as
did Donny Scott Johnson, who was coming
up from Tallahassee for it. Ann was a
recipient of the International Super
Achiever Award in Philadelphia in May,
1978. Ann, a designer with a boutique, Joie
de Vivre, in Haverford, is not only respon-
sible for the scarf and poster for the Bi-
centennial, but she also designed the
Bicentennial Girl Guide uniforms. Daughter
Gigi is owner of Colortek, a commerical
photography firm in Boston. Son Loyd
works for his father, and he and Georgianna
and 3-year-old Jennie have just bought a new
house not too far from the proud grand-
parents.
Posy Potter Hazard writes that, after
living in Alexandria for 30 years, they are
moving in February to Longboat Key, FL,
attracted by the Gulf and outdoor tennis
all year.
Bonilee Key Garrett has hit the grand-
mother jackpot: son Gavin's wife had a
daughter in July, daughter Maurine had a
daughter in October, and son David's wife
is expecting their third child in February.
Bonilee and Gavin are enjoying some fishing,
boating, and traveling in the U.S., as he is
partially retired from ranching.
I have had two lengthy long distance con-
versations with Weezie Woodruff Augst , who
did such a superb job for our 35th. She
described all the events in such detail. I
felt as if I had been with you. I certainly was
in spirit! Her daughter Weezie graduated
from the U. of Kansas, and is working for
an architecture firm in St. Louis as a graphic
designer. Son, Chuck, is in NYC working
for a bond company, and Woodie and his
wife and little daughter are living in Juneau,
AK.
Elizabeth Bond Wood '34, SBC Vice
President, Carolyn Bates, Tour Coordinator,
and I were among the 32 people from SBC
on the trip to Copenhagen May 1978. Our
hotel, Copenhagen Admiral, was an old
warehouse built in the 1700's and recently
made into a 390-room hotel. It was down
on the water front with a terrace at the
water's edge. One evening Jackie and Carolyn
along with Shanda and Fred Rowe, a pro-
fessor at Randolph -Macon, hosted a
party for the two college groups on the ter-
race. We had spectacular weather while
there, and many interesting side trips to
the castle country, Hans Christian Ander-
sen's birth place Odense, Hamlet's castle
Elsinore, the Tuborg brewery and a hydro-
foil trip to Malmo, Sweden. I was most
impressed with the cleanliness and safety
of Denmark.
Our son Ralph has graduated from the U.
of Maine. Mellinda, remarried, presented
us with our first grandson recently. Our
youngest daughter, Mary Minot, a senior at
Mt. Holyoke, just received the Sara Williston
Prize, which is divided between the top six
seniors. She is the top of the six, as well as
being Phi Beta Kappa. I can brag since I
was one of the anchor men (women?) in our
class! She takes after her father and assorted
other relatives. She plans on going on to
law school, and her first conference on the
matter will be with Drue Matthews, who
was our freshman advisor. Remember her?
She is now in charge of Career Services at
Mt. Holyoke.
Not too many of you sent me a return
postcard. Please try to do better the next
time around. I enjoy hearing your news and
then passing it on. So write me!
1951
Secretary
Ruth Clarkson Costello (Mrs. Mark H.),
Box 857, Sausalito, CA 94965
Fund Agent
Sally Anderson Blalock (Mrs. Carlisle), 7011
Desco Dr., Dallas, TX 75225
This is being written on Halloween (1978).
so please take that into account when you
read this, fellow classmates.
I can't seem to find much in the way of
news to report, mainly because I've received
none; so I shall scrape up what I can from
1977 Christmas cards and second-hand bits
and pieces.
On behalf of the Class of 1951, may I
extend sympathy to Ann Mountcastle and
Bob Gamble on the loss of their young son
and to Sally Reid Anderson Blalock on the
loss of her husband Carlisle.
Betty Crisler Buchignani writes from
Memphis that her current interests lie in
the healing arts of naturopathic ideas,
vitamin therapy, and the like. She claims
that 50 mgs of Bl, as immunity from the
bites of mosquitoes, works well on the golf
course if taken before departure.
Nan Snoke Garrett reports that husband
Bob has an interesting new project for his
company — organizing all of their trading
operations world-wide. They are traveling
quite a bit, now that their three children no
longer are "at home." And speaking of
three children, Sue Lockley and Ned Glad
have their three children in college this
year — all at Stanford at the same time!
Barbara Lasier Edgerley's daughter
Barbara was planning to be married Nov.
25, 1978, to Dean Kirschner, and they will
live in Columbus, OH. Both are graduates
of Drake U. at Des Moine, IA, 1975 and
1977. Melinda is a senior biology major at
Colby College, Waterville, ME, under Dr.
Miriam Bennett, who was formerly at SBC.
Diane Richmond Simpson's picture
appeared in the Norton Children's Hospital's
Inter Views, 1978, as she helped a youngster
work a puzzle in her role of president of the
Children's Hospital Auxiliary.
Francoise Happe' Braconier confirms
from her home in Brussels that she and
husband Raymond still travel much of the
year — to France for winter sports, to the
CSte d'Azur for golf, to England in May
to stalk deer on Lord Bath's property.
Then they hunt stag and boar in Belgium
in September. And she sends colored
photographs to document all of this.
Other world travelers are Jo Williams
Fraser and her physician /lecturer husband
Bob, whose travels occasionally bring them
to the San Francisco area.
Jo and Mary (Sheeter) Pierce Clark and I
share the same birthday (12/12/29). It was
a special treat to see Skeeter and husband
Ed here in Sausalito recently, they en route
to a vacation in Hawaii, a gift from their
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daughter Mary Beth. We had not seen one
another in 28 years, or something like that.
Manette Radford lives on a houseboat
next to the Ferryboat Vallejo, on which I
live, here on the shores of Sausalito. It is a
common sight to see her paddling her
kayak among the shorebirds of the San
Francisco Bay, while 1 am mopping decks.
Please do write me (or SBC) and give
news of yourselves and families; and please
give what you can to augment our annual
Gass gift to the Alumnae Association.
Meanwhile, I have two black cats, a
brand new broom, and a long, long night
ahead!
1955
Secretary
Anne Williams Manchester (Mrs. Eli), 61
Nichols Rd., Cohasset, MA 02025
Fund Agent
Phyllis Joyner, 3701 Patterson Ave., Rich-
mond, VA 23221
Arriving too late to be included in last
winter's Notes was a communication from
Sandy Rhodes Carlen reporting a serious
automobile accident in September 1977.
She wrote in November: "I am still in the
hospital, following an automobile accident
September 3. At least now I can get up with
brace and crutches. I was so disappointed
not to be able to drive Sigrid to SBC in
September to start her freshman year, but
friends took her for me. Eric is a sophomore
at U. Va. and Lisi is a sophomore in high
school. Conrad is in sixth grade. All but
Eric are very active in competitive swimming.
Sigy is on the Sweet Briar team. I am hoping
to get out of the hospital by Christmas and
get on with the life that I am so glad and
lucky to have." We all hope that Sandy is
by now fully recovered.
Becksy Faxon Knowles writes that she
has given up full-time teaching to have more
freedom to travel with her husband, but
keeps on her toes by accepting frequent calls
to substitute in three nearby Maine school
districts. Her children Chris (15) and Holly
(13) are wondering when Becksy will turn
up in their classrooms. Joan Kells Cook is
still living in the great Northwest and
enjoying it. She is in real estate and "doing
quite well for a beginner." Duncan is still
at Ft. Lewis. Betsy is a Junior at Western
Washington U. Meredith graduated from
Lakes and is a happy Sweet Briar freshman.
Peter (13) is becoming a skier extraordinaire.
The Cooks had a great summer boating
and fishing in the lakes and Puget Sound
and flew to Connecticut and Mexico for
their holiday.
Mitzi Streit Halla moved to Paris recently
and the family is so pleased to have a few
years in that beautiful city. Kenneth and
Brian (14 and 12) are doing beautifully in
school and with too many activities to miss
TV. The family visited Disneyworld in
April and since then have concentrated on
the French countryside and a side trip to
Rome. Betty Sanford Molster and Jane
Dildy Williams both commented in their
notes that "the children are growing up!"
Mindy Williams is a freshman at S.M.U.,
Ann is a senior at Exeter, and 12-year-old
Mac is in Hampton Roads Academy. The
Williamses saw Kathleen Button Ginn and
L. H. recently. Betty has three children in
college — a boy and a girl at U. Va. and a
boy at Hampton-Sydney. To keep her feeling
voung, Jane is in first gTade.
I talked to Nancy Douthat Goss by tele-
phone. She was sitting in a softly falling snow
of plaster dust, while painters, plumbers,
and plasterers were turning their new
North Andover house into something com-
pletely different from what they bought.
Nancy and Woody moved from Worcester,
MA, when Woody joined a bank in the area.
She got her Masters last summer and
marched in an academic procession at
Worcester Polytechnic Institute for the
inauguration of the new president, which
gave her a chance to wear her new hood.
She reports that Joan Gualtieri Romano has
moved from Akron to Tulsa, OK. Joan, who
was practicing law in Ohio, is not looking
forward to the Oklahoma bar exam.
Ruth Campbell VanDerpoel teaches, plays
tennis, and also runs three to five miles.
She was recently named to the Board of
Trustees at Morristown-Beard School.
Daughter Leigh, 20, is a junior at Cedar
Crest; Jim, 18, who will graduate from
Morristown-Beard this year, received his
private pilot's license last March. Husband
Charlie has taken up running too and can go
one mile.
Lucky Honey Addington Passano was
away for five weeks on a business tour of
the Orient with her husband, who is with
Williams and Wilkins. medical publishers.
Suzy Schmid enjoyed some different traveling
recently. She spent three weeks backpacking
in the Roidoso Canyon. She then traveled to
Santa Fe and Taos to paint and participate
in a unique contemporary poetry group begun
by Allen Ginsberg in the early 60's. In Octo-
ber she spent two weeks in Destin, FL, in a
workshop with portrait and landscape artist
Jane Herring. She was planning to paint in
Forth Worth until Christmas, and then go
skiing in Gstaad, Switzerland, in January.
Ginger Finch spent two months in the
Negev Desert in southern Israel to work
with a small team of people from Harvard
and the University of Tel Aviv. She then
returned to the States to visit family and
friends. Ginger has witnessed devastation
in Kenya due to the drought-related famine.
Our most successful volunteer, Nella Gray
Barkley has joined the John C. Crystal
Center, Inc. of New York, as vice president,
thus becoming a most successful career
woman. The Center is dedicated to helping
people find meaningful careers and more
satisfactory places in life.
I had a long and costly telephone conver-
sation with Betty Byrne Gill Chaney, who
has just returned from a week in England and
is planning a Mexican trip with the children
for March.
Sarah Manchester (13) and I took a tour
of some eastern tourist traps in June. We
stayed with Shirley Sutliff Cooper and Tom
in Alexandria and saw Pat Smith Ticer and
Jack there. Both families are thriving. The
Coopers have recently completed a vacation
house near Bath, ME. I also talked to Pam
Compton Ware. Like the Molsters, Pam and
Hudnali are kept young by their 6-year-old
twin boys.
Keep sending the contributions and notes.
You might not think what you are doing is
interesting to the rest of the class, but it is!
1959
Secretary
Snowdon Durham Kisner (Mrs. Harold
H.), 806 Jefferson Ave., Charles Town,
WV 24514
Fund Agent
Alice Cary Farmer Brown (Mrs. W. L.
Lyons, Jr.) Fincastle. Prospect, KY 40059
Alumnae Council in early October was
again a many splendoured thing! Our Own
Judy Sorley Chalmers was charming and
efficient in her duties as president of the
Alumnae Association. Tabb Thornton
Fairnholt is the secretary and also our reunion
chairman. Tabb is working with much
enthusiasm to make this the best 20th reunion
ever held at SBC, so get organized and plan
to be with all of us on May 18th — we'll
dance in the dells! To show you how special
we are, the class of 1959 is among the top
10 classes in annual giving. Alice Cary
Farmer Brown has worked tirelessly on
this, but of course we '59ers deserve a great
deal of credit too. Both Judy and Alice Cary
are on the Board of Overseers — a great
honor and responsibility — and we claim
them as our own! One of the loveliest and
most touching events of Alumnae Council
was the Service of Remembrance in the
chapel. The service honored alumnae who
have died in the past year, and also dedicated
five needlepoint kneelers. Especially touch-
ing to me was the dedication of the kneeler to
my mother, donated and stitched by Di
Doscher Spurdle.
Many of us are experiencing the "empty
nest" syndrome. Mary Blair Scott Valen-
tine's daughter Molly graduated from St.
Catherine's as the top student in her class
and won the award as the class leader. She
is now a freshman at UNC. P. Watson
Seaman, son of Betsy Duke and Peter, is a
merit scholarship finalist. He is a senior
at St. Christopher's. Nina Hopkins Fer-
guson (newly moved back to Atlanta from
Asheville, NO has a son. Tommy, at Wood-
berry Forest. He and Tabb's son Bart,
16, are in the same class and on the foot-
ball team together. Also at Woodberry are
Mary Ballou Handy Ballentine's sons,
Teddy and Joey Stettinius. Tabb's daughter
Mary Blair, 14, is now a freshman at St.
Catherine's. Alice Cary's children are all
away also. Lyons is a first year man at
UVa.; Cary, 16, is at Miss Porter's school;
and Stuart, 14, is at Eaglebrook, where he
was immediately elected to the student
government. Like mother, like son?
Fleming Parker Rutledge spoke in Rich-
mond at St. Paul's Church last winter.
Sorrell Mackall McElroy had a festive
gathering bringing area schoolmates and
their husbands together to honor Fleming
and Dick's visit. Fleming's daughter Hey-
ward and Judy Sorley Chalmer's son Douglas
both attended Dennis Van der Meer's tennis
clinic at SBC last summer and had a fabulous
time. Judy says Douglas is saving every
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penny so he can return next summer.
Our working girls keep going on to bigger
and better things. Courtney Gibson Pelley
is the new principal of an elementary school
in Arlington, VA, where she reigns with a
firm but gentle hand. Susan Taylor Mon-
tague is doing very well in the real estate
business in Alexandria (her daughter
Ashley is doing well also at St. Agnes School,
where she is a class officer). Betsy Colwill
Wiegers is once again working full time for
Time-Life Books and commutes sporadically
between the new office in Alexandria, VA,
and NYC. She's so busy, I can't even catch
her for lunch. In semi-retirement from
teaching is Ruth Weaver Williams, who
loves being a homebody again. Husband
McCrea is a doctor.
While visiting relatives in Charlotte last
summer, we had a grand visit with Betsy
Smith White and Bill. We were most im-
pressed with their beautiful daughters,
Katie. 12, and Margaret, 14, and were sorry
to miss seeing Elizabeth, 16. Our sons,
Kenneth, 13, and Richard, 11. were overcome
with adolescent shyness, but the discovery
that they'd all seen Grease that afternoon
finally broke the ice. Betsy has been on the
Executive Board of the Alumnae Association
and is a recent past president of the Jr.
League of Charlotte. I wish I'd known that
Ann Fulenwider Schenck was in Charlotte —
we could have had a reunion. How about
in May?
Vickie Meeks Blair-Smith writes the most
news-filled Xmas letters every year, and it
is this class secretary's opinion that she'd
make a wonderful new one for us. She has a
real flair, plus all sorts of exciting things
to tell. For example, since 1970 Hugh's
Draper Lab group has been advising NASA,
Rockwell, and IBM on how to make the
space shuttle's on-board control computer
system fault tolerant. When Enterprize was
launched, chaos broke out when a critical
signal wire had come unstuck. As we know,
all worked out O.K., and Hugh and col-
leagues are trying to ready the computers
for the Orbital Flight Test beginning in
1979. In addition to all of this, the Blair -
Smiths are still sailing their yacht to various
fascinating places with their two small
children, Robert, 9, and C. C, 8. Vickie is
still doing volunteer work for two schools and
is continuing the geneological project
started by her father on the Meeks family.
In addition to working full time as
administrative assistant at a multi-service
social agency for older adults. Cookie Cooke
Carle is still active in NOW, does profes-
sional singing, and cares for Becca, 8, who
Cookie feels has exceptional talent in music
and dance. Cookie was very ill last year, but
has made a full recovery. Pat Davis Sutler has
established a YWCA child care and parent-
child program which serves 250 families.
In June of 1978 Pat completed a two year
Teacher Education Program at the Institute
for Psychoanalysis. Trish Chandler Burns
has three children, Patti, 11, Meredith, 10,
and Andy, 4. She is co-owner of a gift shop
and particularly enjoys her buying trips.
She had a grand visit with Susan Glass Pit-
kethley, whose husband is a neuro-surgeon
in Washington State and was in Atlanta
for a convention. Kitty Watjen Fleming's
husband Fred is back at the Pentagon, and
the family is delighted to be in Virginia.
Lynn, 19, is a freshman at George Mason
U. Kitty's other children are Rich, 16, and
Barbie, 14.
Our most adventurous travelers seems to
be Cecil Martin Pearsall, who with Mack
and son Brad, 13, visited Egypt, Syria,
Jordon, Israel, and Greece in July of '77
while Egypt was having a border war with
Libya. The previous summer the Pearsalls
were in Capetown when 27 people were
killed. Away from the strife was Anne Wim-
bish Kasanin. whose family spent 10 perfect
days on Kauai. Anne also found peace and
beauty at SBC when she visited and wished
that we had had the wonderful new pool
when were there (We'll have a swim party at
reunion!).
Susan Timberlake Thomas and Cal spend
most of their fall weekends going to Episcopal
High School to watch their son Steuart
lead the football team to victories. Also at
E.H.S. is Will Carter, Elsie Prichard Carter
and Billy's son, who is excelling academically
and on the tennis courts.
On October 16, 1978, Jane Wheeler
Garcia gave birth to a son, Augustus Israel
Garcia, her third child and second son. Jane
has happily taken a two-year leave of absence
from her job to enjoy her baby and the life
of a full-time homemaker. Virginia Ramsey
Crawford, on the other hand, has returned
to work as a school librarian after a year's
leave of absence — much rested, more
enthusiastic and invigorated. Her oldest
daughter is a freshman at the U. of Vermont.
Ann Pegram Harris writes that son Jack
Lyle is a junior at UVa, daughter Martha
Lyle is about to graduate from Westminster
School, son Jay Lyle is a sophomore wrestler at
Westminster, and Byron is a freshman foot-
ball player at Westminster. Ann is president
of PAWS (Parents Associated With Schools)
— at Westminster, no doubt.
Chuck and I and ours are all fine. I am
fat and forty (plus!) but of course intend
to be gorgeous by reunion time (as I know
all of you will be!). My mind is being vaguely
challenged by an Antique Furniture course,
but more so by my 13-year-old son. I am
still plugging along at tennis — liking it
more and playing it worse. We are all
delighted with our new house, but a bit
awed by the yard work required. We had
a six-week visit from my sister Louise
Durham Purvis '62 and all her Scottish
family. We were astonished (and distressed)
to see how far ahead academically the
Scottish children are of their American
peers. Do you think we'll ever get back to
basics?
That seems to be the news. Let me stress
one last time how beautiful and inspiring
SBC is today. I hope you will all come in May
and verify my feelings. How wonderful it
will be to be with our super class again. I hope
to see you all there! This will be my last
edition of the '59 news. It's been a pleasure
and a joy. Thank you for asking me!
1963
Secretary
Allison Stemmons Simon (Mrs. Heinz K.),
3213 Salinas Ct., Irving. TX 75062
Fund Agent
Ann Carter Brothers (Mrs. John C). 1008
Chancery Ln., Nashville, TN 37215
Births
Katherine Louise, born April 17, 1978,
adopted April 21, 1978, by Nancy Dixon
and Donald S. Brown (1st child).
Son to Laura Lee Brown Deters and Leonidas
Everything seems anticlimactic after our
super 15th Reunion last May, but it is fun
as usual to get updated news from lots of
our classmates. Writing this so soon after
our reunion newsletter makes me feel really
in touch.
From Denmark, Harriet Reese Jensen
writes, "We are, as ever, farming, raising our
children, horses and dogs, and in general
very busy. We would love to welcome any
SBC's especially from the class of '63." And
from Paris, France, Sallie Yon Williams
reports that she had to give up her job as
director of LaVarenne, the famous cooking
school, to care for Peter's mother who be-
came ill and died last spring. Sallie is con-
tinuing her culinary career, however, among
other things cooking for a California wine
festival with a two-star chef from Aix-en-
Provence. She is also resuming her writing
and editing. Her boys are Whitridge, 6'/i
and Courtney, 3, and they ski yearly with
Sallie and Peter.
From Caribou. ME, Jane Yardley Page
writes, "We continue our romance with the
North Maine woods, camping canoeing and
hiking." Her daughter Emily, 5, started
bi-lingual (French and English) kindergarten
last fall.
This past summer Barbara Sullivan and
Art Wanamaker and their three children
moved back to the States after many years
in London and have built a house on East
Neck Road in Rye, NY. She joins our large
New York contingent, who are among the
best when it comes to responses to pleas
for news. From Victor, NY, Pat Calkins
Wilder writes that she has happily turned
her fund raising duties for our class over
to Anne Carter Brothers and has concen-
trated this past summer on preparing their
horses for fall fox-hunting and cross-
country carriage drives. Pat and Mike have
three children, Chris, 11, Alan, 8, and Kelley.
7, all involved in sports and musical activities,
and Pat says she is getting the first glimpses
of how to run a taxi company. Lyn Clark
Pegg, John, and children live in Glovers-
ville, NY, where Lyn is proprietor of two
Adirondack Folkwares locations. She is
also president of Big Brothers and Big
Sisters of Fulton County. Hazel Walling
Nourse, David and their three children
live in Bedford, NY, and Hazel writes that
now that her youngest is in 2nd grade she is
fulfilling a long-time dream of attending
law school at Fordham U. Robin Harris
Russell writes from Chappaqua that she
has kept busy this past year working on a
book, "just a small, 96-page photo essay
on Rye, but fun to research and edit." Robin
also reports that little Russell #3 was
imminent in November, and "by the miracles
of modern science, I'm told it's a girl this
time!" From Painted Post, NY, Margaret
Millender Holmes reports that her family has
fallen in love with their small town since
moving there two years ago, "everything
but the unbelievable cost of living." George
and Steve play soccer, and Margaret and
husband Tom have become avid cross-
country skiers. Margaret works part time
as a computer consultant. Doris Chu Yeko
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and daughter Jennifer, 5, live in Englewood.
NJ, where Doris is producing Broadway
and off-Broadway musicals for phonograph
records.
Pru Gay writes from Arlington, MA,
"Sorry to have missed reunion but was out
camping with sixth graders at the time!"
Pru has developed both an adaptive Out-
ward Bound program and a racial awareness
program for her elementary school students.
And our Connecticut contingent . . . Nancy
McDowell Fairbanks has three children,
Ted, 12, and Kathy and Andy, 10. Her hus-
band Hap is Director of Freshman English
and Associate Professor of English at U.
Conn, and they live in "rural, idyllic Storrs."
(Nancy says, "Our children are finally
learning how to cross streets with stop
lights!") Nancy works as a school social
worker in Manchester, CT. Deborah Doherty
now lives in Middlebury, CT, where she works
part time as a staff psychologist for Newing-
ton Children's Hospital while finishing her
dissertation. She says, "Upon becoming
Dr. Doherty I think I'll just retire!" Ann
Funkhouser Strite writes from Ridgefield,
CT, that she and her husband enjoyed a
visit with Missy Lohr and Graham Randolph
at the horse races in West Virginia this
past summer. Ann is president of her local
chapter of the National Embroiderers'
Guild and will attend and demonstrate at
several exhibits this fall. Nikki Griess
Deupree, Tom, Karolen, 10, and Taylor,
7, moved from Toledo, OH, to Suffield. CT,
a year ago. Tom is in the landscape nursery
business and Nikki is involved with antique
shows. However their big family project is
renovating their home — first an 1830 Greek
Revival house which they sold, and now a
Federal Colonial built in 1794, a major
undertaking including new heating and
plumbing. They are living in a three-bed-
room cottage on the 18-acre property while
renovations go forward.
Our attorney, Polly Wirtzman Craighill,
has been recently appointed Director of
the Consumer Impact Division of the Dept.
of Energy and is looking forward to being
in Washington, DC, on a fulltime basis
again. She was formerly with the Florida
Solar Energy Center. Close by are Sue Jones
Cansler "in a happy and busy rut" in
Alexandria, VA, and Cheri Fitzgerald
Burchard, whose husband is in his final
year at Virginia Theological Seminary and
next year will enter the Episcopal priest-
hood. Mary Lou Morton and Charlie live
in Warrenton, VA, where they will be adding
to their guest house this fall. Their home
will be open for garden week next spring. A
long and newsy note came from Ella Brown
Hughes, who is teaching Latin I-V at
Brookville High School in Lynchburg.
They have more Latin students in the high
school than Spanish or French! Ella has
taken five groups of students on trips to
Italy, in addition to raising her own four.
Duane. her oldest, will graduate from high
school this spring. Cheri is a junior, Mark
is a 5th grader and Stacie is in 4th. Lucy
Boyd Lemon Edmunds writes from Rich-
mond that she has had a real Sweet Briar
year — first reunion, then Alumnae Council
at which she saw Sue Jones Cansler, Nancy
Roberts Pope, Jessica Bemis Ward and
Lisa Wood Franklin, and then she went to
Washington, DC, to visit her old roommate
Sally Strain.
Linda Wolfrum Reynolds and husband
Walter, who raise and train horses for the
show ring and combined training, this year
had the highscore champion yearling in
Maryland. In addition to their farm life in
Hampstead, MD, Walter has started his own
Landscape Architecture/Land Use Plan-
ning office, and Linda works at Johns
Hopkins Hospital in the Genetics lab.
From Tennessee comes news from Leslie
Buchman Richardson that she is teaching
a class of first-year Italian at the U. of the
South. Next year when her husband Dale
is on sabbatical the Richardsons plan to
go to London for a semester. Anne Carter
Brothers' summer plans in Nashville were
shortcircuited by her father's unexpected
illness following surgery. She has spent the
summer close to the hospital, and of course
we all send best wishes for his speedy
recovery. Lee Kucewicz Parham is busy in
Chattanooga with her "Christmas Corner"
Christmas Shop.
Ann Clute Obenshain and Boyd live in
Peewee Valley, KY, where Boyd has a new
position as marketing manager with a toy
firm which his girls, Liza (5) and Meg (2)
just love. Also in Kentucky, Laura Brown
Deters has a new son, born last spring. She
is taking a photography class and recently
received a surprise gift: a beautiful jumper.
("I never jumped a horse in my life!") In
November, Laura had a museum purchase
trip to New York. Leslie Smith Elgar and
her three daughters, 9, 11 and 12, live in
Whitefish Bay, a suburb of Milwaukee, WI.
Leslie graduated from U. of Michigan and
has held several jobs, the most recent in
purchasing. She is active in two single
parents' organizations.
From Charlotte, NC, Lucy Otis Anderson
says she is usually on a "fetch and carry
mission" for Lucy (6'/i), who is in first grade
and finds sitting still her most difficult
adjustment, and Shirley (3'/2), "a marvelous
supervisor — she'll run anything, given the
chance." Lucy's husband David is with the
North Carolina National Bank. Betsy Parker
McColl reports her Eliza is a "non-stop
toddler with chronic skinned knees and a
passion for tennis balls." Small wonder,
since Eliza's mommy won the South Carolina
35 Singles, Doubles and Mixed-Doubles
championships this past summer.
From Atlanta, Nancy Dixon Brown
reports that she spends most of her time
now playing with and watching daughter
Katherine Louise, adopted last April. In
August the Browns had a visit from Julia
Arnold Morey and Russell who had wel-
comed a grandson in June, named Russell
after his grandfather. Julia says Nancy's
Katherine is "almost as cute as Russell!"
Julia and Russell live in New York and had
just returned from a vacation in Northern
Portugal. Betty Stanly will be off to Kenya
in January, and her travel agency has just
sent a second tour group to China. Betty
also mentioned seeing the Moreys, as well
as a visit with Meta Bond Magevney who
has just opened a Christmas Shop in
Jacksonville. FL. Ginger Cates Mitchell
reports she was sorry to miss reunion but
was playing Matron of Honor to her sister
that weekend. Her children are 12, 8 and 4
and keep her busy; husband Mitch is
starting his own business — "very exciting
and very scary!"
And from the Texans. Ann Knicker-
bocker McCulloch writes from Houston
that she and her husband and children
made a "pilgrimage" to Sweet Briar this
past July. "What nostalgia to take them to
2nd floor Grammar to view Pat Calkins and
my room and to explain my natural reflex
to yell 'flushing' when availing myself of
the John." Marta Sweet Colangelo, also
from Houston, writes that her life revolves
around the activities of her 1st and 3rd
graders, and that "come April a little sur-
prise package will arrive and carry me
backward to 2 a.m. feedings and diapers."
Judy Gutches Needham missed reunion
because of a severe case of hepatitis but
is recovered now. Her husband is in life
insurance management, and children Jill
(11), Mike (9) and Jeff (6) stay busy with
school and soccer. Keitt Matheson Wood
used my reply card to set a date to come to
Dallas for a visit, and she and Frank spent
a delightful evening with Heinz and me.
They have just returned from a fantastic
eight-day float trip thru the Grand Canyon.
January will find all four Woods in Snow-
mass for skiing. Frank's orthopedic surgical
clinic in Paris, TX, continues most success-
ful.
Karen Gill Meyer and husband Jim also
enjoyed a recent Colorado River float trip,
as well as a trip to last year's Super Bowl.
Their son Randy (9) won 2nd place in State
(Arizona) in AAU Swimming competition,
and daughter Kristin (6) is into horseback
riding and gymnastics.
Lu Gardner Grummon was elected to
the School Board of Wheatland, WY. and
is vice chairman of the local Republican
party. Chris Devol Wardlow and family,
who live in Littleton, CO, moved recently
to a new house only a mile from their former
one. Chris is a buyer for a manufacturing
company and enjoys the work and a four
day work week!
Lots of news from California! Carol
Crowley Karm and her family are active
travellers, including visits to Lake Tahoe
where they rode the rapids on rafts, rode
horses and hiked, the Grand Canyon, Painted
Desert, etc. Carol and Bill will visit the Far
East in the spring. Carol is a docent at the
L. A. Museum of Natural History and
teaches a Great Books course, plays tennis
and takes ballet. Nancy Wood writes,
"I'm no longer doing campus ministry.
I still regard Cleveland as 'home' but have
begun a 4-year Ph.D. program at the
California Institute of Transpersonal
Psychology in Menlo Park, CA." Nancy is
thoroughly enjoying this new experience.
Cynthia Hooten Magowan graduated
this past June from U. of California with
honors in Psychology.
Things continue hectic on the Simon
home front, with both businesses thriving —
the travel agency now sports nine em-
ployees, and our businessmen's "town
club" has over six hundred members.
Heinz and I work early and late, but love
it. Our oldest daughter, Karen, is in her
sophomore year at Colorado U. and will
go around the world this year on a "Semes-
ter at Sea" program. Kim is a senior in
high school currently all wrapped up in a
staring role in the Senior Play. It is hard
to believe that this time next year both
little chicks will have flown the nest!
Heinz and I were in Berlin last April for
a visit with his mother, and she is coming
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here in November, her first visit since our
wedding. Time to polish up the German
again!
With the completion of these notes I
will turn over the job of Oass Secretary
to Ann Funkhouser Strife, and I hope
you will all be as generous to her with
your news as you have been to me. I've
loved the job and will miss the yearly
contacts with old friends.
1967
Secretary
Judith L. Bensen, 160 E. 38th St., New York,
NY 10016
Fund Agent
Beth Glaser Morchower (Mrs. Michael), 1 10
Tempsford Ln.. Richmond, VA 23226
Births:
Leslie Cleapor to Paula Ayotte and Hobart
Corwin, Jan., 1978
Thomas Wilson III to Susan Jester and
Thomas Jenkins, Feb. 2, 1978
Dana Elizabeth to Dottie Dana and Bill King,
June 26, 1978
Nancy Glynne to Gretchen Ballard and David
Barber, Aug. 5, 1978
Elizabeth Courtney to Martha Meehan and
Tom Elgar, Sept. 18, 1978
Sarah Jamison to Linda File and Herb
Trimpe, Oct. 14, 1978
Hello to the class of 1967. Thank you for
such a big response to my newsletter. I re-
ceived over 30 letters and even heard from
some lost members. So I'll share my news with
you all.
Lynn Gulleit Strazzin, newly remarried and
a stepmother to two, has moved from Virginia
to Germany. Her husband Ed is in the Army
and Lynn works as a counselor for soldiers in
an Army Education Center. Their summer
was spent traveling around Europe.
Margaret Mapp Young writes from Ac-
comae, VA. that being a wife, mother, volun-
teer worker and homemaker compared to run-
ning a small business. She and Dick have been
working on redecorating his new law office,
and in spite of their three sons Margaret finds
time to volunteer for a preschool reading
group and library duty.
Gretchen Bullard Barber and David have a
new addition who will grow up in Pennsyl-
vania with an Anglo-Southern touch. Gret-
chen is on leave of absence from AT&T while
her husband works in Wilmington. DE. for
ICI, a British chemical firm. They visited with
old roommate Mary Lindsay and her family in
North Carolina this summer. And speaking of
Mary Lindsay Smith Newson, she wrote from
Roanoke Rapids, NC, that she and Mac
traveled to London and Paris in June. Busy
with daughter Kate, jogging, and many civic
duties. Mary Lindsay still finds time to be an
official SBC hostess. Bill and Sue Morck
Perrin stopped by on the way from their new
home in Greenwich, CT, to Hilton Head, SC.
She has also seen Sally Haskell Hulcher who
has two adorable children, 2 yrs. and 10 mos..
carrot tops, no less. Peggy Handley Fitzgerald
with her two sons in nursery school has finally
found some free time. Page Munroe Renger
wrote of her family's visit to the Newsons'
Lake Gaston house and her and John's sum-
mer at Myrtle Beach, SC, with their 6-and 4-
year-olds. Page is busy with her church guild,
bridge, needlepoint and jogging two to three
miles a day.
Judy//av Speary and Bill live in Barnesville,
MD, with their two children in a solar-heated
home they are decorating. Judy, when not
baking bread and making jam, teaches com-
puter programming courses at NIH and in
spare time plays with her personal "pet" com-
puter.
Peggy Pittman Patterson teaches history
and religion at the Episcopal School of Dallas,
while husband Dwight works for a computer
firm. They have three children.
Daphne Daynham White, a mother of two
children, also is in Dallas. She is in real estate,
specializing in residential and condominium
sales, while husband Kemble is a lawyer.
Some long-unheard-from classmembers
wrote of their news. Paula Ayotte Corwin and
husband Hobie live in Marietta. GA. Hobie is
V.P. of Finance and Treasurer of a trucking
firm in Atlanta. Paula, a new mother, using
her IBM experience is doing freelance com-
puter systems work two or three days a week.
Lillian Rothe Gee and husband Mark are liv-
ing in Newport, RI. They have two daughters.
9 and 5, and an 8-mos.-old son. Lillian retired
from politics as Newport City Councilwoman
and is now involved in real estate. Nancy Pen-
dergrass Scott and Jeffrey live in an 1840
townhouse in Bordertown, NJ, that they are
busy restoring. Nancy manages a garden cen-
ter and is doing landscape designing, while
her husband is an account executive with an
advertising agency in NYC.
Carroll Randolph Barr wrote of many visits
with family and friends and a busy summer.
She and Michael visited with Ina Brown
Husselman and Billy at the Kentucky Derby.
Carroll found it a real thrill and ran into many
old SBC, Hollins. Deke, Beta and Zeta friends
and even spotted Billy Carter, Bob Hope and
Cheryl Tiegs. Carroll is also taking flying les-
sons and when not piloting herself she plays
chief navigator for pilot Mike.
Sally Twedell Bagley, who lives in Rich-
mond, VA, is teaching piano. No surprise is
that daughter Betsy, 8, loves all kinds of
music. Sally is involved with the woman's
committee of the Richmond Symphony and
the Musicians Club. She and husband Phil
plan a trip in the Fall to Amsterdam and Paris
with the Richmond Bar Association.
Mary MeCall Mastin is practicing law with
the Juvenile Court System and living in Chat-
tanooga. TN.
Dolly Caballero Saliva just graduated from
the U. Puerto Rico and received her B.A. with
her three proud children in attendance. Both
she and husband Julio are working for the
pro-statehood party with hopes that PR will be
the 51st state. On a recent visit to Spain. Dolly
saw Ginny Carpenter Delgado and her family.
Stephanie Lucas Harrison and Dick are still
exploring Mexico and finding incredibly beau-
tiful Indian ruins practically in their back-
yard. Stephanie has joined a ladies choral
group and is chair person of Mexico City's
Newcomers Club Gourmet Group, which gives
her the excuse to eat yummy things. She is
looking forward to her visit to the states this
winter and being able to drink water from the
tap.
Dottie Dana King and husband Bill now
have a daughter to add to their family of two
sons in Jacksonville, FL. They moved to a new
house four blocks away, but one with lots of
bedrooms.
Susan Jester Jenkins is now "retired" from
the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond after
10 years and is now mothering the "cutest
baby boy you'll ever see."
Beverly Bradshaw Blake and Kendall are fi-
nally leaving Memphis, TN. After Kendall fin-
ishes his orthopedic residency, he will be prac-
ticing in Jackson, MS. Beverly writes that after
"10'/2 years of marriage they will finally be
grownups." They have two children, 8 and 4,
and she is into smocking, silk flowers and
quilting. Bev looks forward to decorating her
new home — better, she hopes, than her room
at SBC.
Bonnie Blew Pierie and Tim had a busy
summer with trips to Rhode Island beaches
and to a sailing resort near Booth Bay Harbor,
ME. With her youngest in nursery school,
Bonnie finally has found time to play and ride
her horses all she wants at their farm in Graf-
ton, MA.
Ellie Spivey Decker sent news from the
prairies of South Dakota. Her summer was
full of boating, water skiing and horse activ-
ities and the doings of three children, the old-
est just starting kindergarten. Ellie misses her
SBC friends and pleads that if anyone is pass-
ing through Pierre, SD, do call her.
I had a lovely visit with Mary Cary Ambler
Finley at her beautiful NYC Riverside Drive
apartment. She and John have a beautiful son
who is their pride and joy. The Finleys are
looking forward to a visit to Paris in the spring
and Mary Cary is President of the NYC Alum-
nae Club. Her apartment is filled with beauti-
fully created silk flower arrangements.
Linda Fite and husband Herb Trimpe wel-
comed their third (and final, Linda says) child
in October. Sarah's arrival didn't seem to in-
terrupt Linda's routine: she went flying with
Herb in their open-cockpit biplane the week-
end before and the weekend after Sara's birth.
A month later she expected to be back at her
freelance work.
Martha Meehan Elgar wrote directly from
her hospital bed in Louisville, KY, after the
birth of their daughter. Her other two chil-
dren, 7 and 4, were so thrilled that they can't
wait to take her to school for show and tell.
Martha co-edited her Junior League's produc-
tion The Cooking Book and is involved in
many league activities.
Maria Wigglesworth Hemmings, Jeff and
daughter Emery are living in New Canaan,
CT, and she has been busy shuffling data
processing work, babysitters, family and
homemaking. Maria is doing consulting
work which involves some traveling and is
enjoying it.
Charlotte Hoskins Page is over halfway
through her M.B.A. at U. of Oregon and asks
that anyone near Eugene, OR. please look her
up.
Baird Shinberger Bell is teaching biology
and physical science at St. Mary's Hall, a pri-
vate school in San Antonio, TX. Her husband
Bill is secretary to the general staff in Head-
quarters Health Services, USA, and Baird.
Bill and their two sons plan to stay in San An-
tonio two more years.
Barbie Tillman Goodwin is working with
the Birmingham , AL, City Board of Education
driving the artmobile with exhibits to elemen-
tary schools in the Birmingham area. After be-
ing certified to teach. Barbie loves this as there
are no lesson plans to prepare. Besides
mothering two children. Barbie worked this
summer proofreading and indexing books for
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Oxmoor House, a division of Southern Living
Magazine.
Stephanie Ewalt Ayers, Rye and their two
sons visited in Virginia Beach with Lisa Har-
vey Morton and her family. Stephanie is trav-
eling to local schools with the Junior League
Puppet Show (works with Peggy Kennedy
Brown) and also is involved with the Historic
Richmond Foundation Jr. Board.
Eleanor Kidd Crossley and husband Jim
traveled to Morocco on business this past year,
with visits to England and Holland. The
Crossleys visited with Vicki Baker Vlek (their
ex-babysitter) and her son in Holland. Elea-
nor's children, who were 2, 4, 5 at SBC, are
now out of college themselves. However their
7-year-old son allows Eleanor to be practically
the oldest mother in the PTA. She should be
proud.
As we saw in the Alumnae Magazine, Elder
Witt, looking lovely, is a writer-editor for the
Congressional Quarterly in Washington, D.C.
Well that's all there is. Please continue to
keep me informed of your comings and go-
ings. I've enjoyed all the letters you've sent. As
you have all heard, your class secretary has
moved to NYC after 10 years in Boston. See
what love can do! I have been job hunting and
hope I will soon be a women's executive with
some firm here in the big city. I guess being a
housewife is not for me.
My best to you all for a good 1979.
1971
Secretary
Amanda C. Megargee, P. O. Box 36, Al-
berta, VA 23821
Fund Agent
Pamolu Oldham, P. O. Box 124, Sanford,
NC 27330
Marriages
Sherrill Marks to Hugh Hunter Byrd
Births
Claiborne Henebry to Mary Frances Oakey
Marshall and Herman
Molly Butler to Ginger Lord McKee and
Robert
Emily Stevens to Kathy Garcia Pegues and
John
Meredith Ellen to Mary Lyman Ray and
Robert
Matthew Dempsey to Louise Dempsey
McKean and Ted
Croft Anderson to Becky Bottomly Meeker
and David
Katherine Caulkins to Katherine Wilson
Lamb and Rex
Aaron Matthew to Denise Wisell Gustafson
and Paul
Jessa Wilson to Kathy Wilson Martin and
Billy
Katherine Elizabeth to Mimi Boyd Yount
and Richard
John Hudson to Dorrie Wedzig Brand and
Skip
Jon Mackie to Margaret Mackie Sanders and
D. P.
Helen Mallory to Martha Stewart Crosland
and Ed
Kathy Garcia Pegues' news was pretty
exciting. I heard from her on Oct. 13 that
she had a little girl the week before. So she
is going to retire from teaching for a few
years to enjoy Emily and the countryside
around Warrenton.
Katie Horan is still being kept busy by
Bloomingdile's. She says she finds time to
ride several times a week and to travel. She
spent her winter vacation in Brazil and her
summer vacation in Egypt and Greece. She
also has kept up with her art work in between
trips to NYC for Bloomingdale's.
Barbara Brand has just completed her
third year as Administrator of historic
Hammon Harwood House, a house museum
in Annapolis. In September she received her
Master's in Art History from George Wash-
ington U. Barbara has become a dedicated
sailor and said that this summer was filled
with many pleasurable hours on the Chesa-
peake Bay.
Carol Everest Lightfoot writes that her
husband Bill is finishing up his general
surgery residency but that they will stay in
Mobile where he will practice. She has a
part-time job and a full-time job at home
with 2'/2-year old Malcolm.
Terry Helm writes that she has been
teaching trainable mentally retarded children
for seven years and loves it. She is active in
many organizations dealing with retarded
citizens as well as being an area coordinator
for Special Olympics in Indiana. She is also
an active member of the Evansville Junior
League.
Carolyn Jones Walthall, Julian and David
are back in Alabama after Julian's year at
Yale Divinity School. He is pastor of a Presby-
terian church in a small town near the Gulf
Coast. They are all enjoying being closer to
their families and are glad they made the
decision to return to Alabama. Julian finds
his work challenging and Carolyn and David
are enjoying being in a small community.
Valeria Murphy Robinson and Don are
still settled comfortably in Richmond.
Valeria continues to edit the Virginia Journal
of Education. She and Don spent the month
of May in northern Spain and are planning
a trip to England in April.
Pam Henery Arey writes only that she is
still alive and well in Richmond, VA.
I wrote last year that Alix Sommer was
looking for an assistant principalship.
Fortunately, she didn't have to look far:
she has become assistant principal of the
school where she had taught for 5 1 /! years.
She misses teaching, but still is very involved
with the local children's theater in Fredericks-
burg, currently as the step-mother in
Cinderella!
Gale Hull Whetzel and Gene are still in
Jacksonville, NC, where Gene is a Marine
Corps attorney. Gale is teaching English
to Marines who do not have a high school
diploma! Their son Robin will be joined by
a sibling New Year's Day, if all goes as
scheduled.
Andrea R. Bateman was nominated to
Outstanding Young Women of America
this year. She is an assistant state attorney in
Barlow, FL, doing felony work and is very
happy.
I'm not sure I can even spell all the things
Pattie Schwaim is doing, but at present she
is completing her Ph.D. in Evolutionary
Biology at the U. of Chicago and teaching
histology to medical students there. She
commutes to Central and South America to
collect tropical tree frogs and she will be
doing the same in the rain-forests of Ecuador
this winter. She loves her work.
Carter Burns Cunningham and David
are still enjoying Washington. They are
bankers in rival banks but Carter is in com-
mercial loans and David is in trusts.
Becky Bottomly Meeker is proud to
announce that a third son has come to join
their family. Becky is playing tennis, taking
ballet, working on an arts and education
committee in Dayton and volunteering at
the Children's Medical Center. With all
that, three sons, two golden retrievers and a
husband, I guess she does keep busy!
Kathy Wilson Lamb said my card was
well timed. She and Rex just had their second
daughter, Kate, on October 8. They love
Atlanta, where Kathy plays tennis, does
volunteer work at the museum and tries to
keep up with a three-year-old and a new
baby.
I'm really pleased this year to hear from
several people that haven't written since I've
been secretary. Ann Webster Danford and
Jim are living in Tallahassee in a red salt
box that they're building themselves. Jim is
a builder and Ann is an interior designer; so
she designs huuses and he builds them. They
have a 2'/i-year-old son, Robert. Becky
Randolph visited them in their coast cottage
this summer. Ann says the Washington
business world must agree with Becky because
she looks great. Becky is, I believe, working
for Price Waterhouse, but I'm not sure
because she doesn't return phone calls from
old roommates.
Another stranger 1 was so happy to hear
from was Palmer Gulley Graham. She and
Barry are living in Rome, GA, his hometown.
While Barry practices law, Palmer is the
Registrar at Shorter College. She is also
teaching English there and loves it.
Caroline Gibbes is about to finish her
opthamology residency! But now she must
decide where to go into private practice and,
as she says, it's a big decision. She saw Peggy
McElveen on a trip to Columbia, SC. She
says Peggy is teaching riding and enjoying it.
Kathy Burns Smith is the Marketing
Director for Software Education Corporation
in New York City. She says it involves getting
to know all the best restaurants in town; so
I guess it's a good thing she and her husband
Barry keep in shape with tennis, running
and racketball. She also is involved in Yoga
and Tai Chi. She's continuing her education
at the American Management Association
and IBM. She says no kids, station wagons
or houses yet.
Anne Milbank Mell reports that her first
year as a mother has been very busy and a
whole lot of fun. She's been active in her
Junior Woman's Club and ran the local
United Way Pet Show — a million kids with
a very wide variety of pets! She says they
seem to spend all their time and energy paint-
ing, redecorating, gardening and playing
lots of tennis. Libby Tyree Taylor visited
Ann this summer, and she was expecting
Jeanette Bush in a few days. Carolyn Jones
Walthall, Julian and David stopped by on
their way from New Haven to Foley, AL.
Libby Tyree and Barry Taylor are still in
San Francisco, where Libby enjoys teaching
a 3rd- and 4th-grade class and Barry has a
law practice. They are looking forward to
a great ski season. Libby misses Jeanette
Bush, who works as a legal assistant in San
Francisco but is taking a four-month leave
of absence to travel, visiting family in Texas
and friends all along the East Coast.
Wendy Weiler Maffucci, though still work-
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ing for the same company she has been with
almost six years, has now moved to New
York City. She is presently Director of Ad-
ministration and Planning for a national
service company and travels extensively. She
ran into Marguerite Smith Stevens in Wash-
ington. DC, where she is a lawyer. Wendy
also visited her sister at Sweet Briar and
had a chance to admire the pool and the
renovated Benedict.
Carol D. Cooper was selected an Outstand-
ing Handicapped Federal Employee for
1978 with a picture and write-up in the
Civil Service magazine.
Kate Worobec Story and Steve have bought
a home in Jacksonville, FL, where Steve is
with a leading tax law firm, having received
a law degree from the U. of Georgia and a
doctorate in tax law from the U. of Florida.
Kate is with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
& Smith and doing volunteer work at Cummer
Gallery. She reports that Karen Larrick
Hahn is working for an insurance company
in Atlanta.
Martha Roton Terry and Jack live in
Mobile, where Martha is doing computer
programming with Morrison's, Inc., a
cafeteria chain. She and Jack enjoy frequent
weekend fishing trips on their new boat.
Pamolu Oldham is teaching courses at a
technical institute in Fayetteville, NC, and
living in a 175-year-old house she moved to
a farm and is restoring. She has given poetry
and fiction workshops, had some stories
published (one is an anthology entitled
Love Stories by New Women), and helped
edit a collection of photography and poetry
by 70 and 80-year-olds. She's taking welding
at night!
Elizabeth Glassman has been busier than
most lately, juggling three jobs. She's writing
a catalogue of the Print Collection of Domin-
que de Menil. She is also teaching at the U.
of Houston "The History of Photography"
in the Art History Department. And she is
co-curator of an exhibition and catalogue for
the Detroit Institute of Arts, based on the
research for her Masters Thesis on a photo-
graphy process — the Cliche-verre. She says
there'll be hectic times ahead but considering
that she'll have to travel to Europe to do
more research for the Detroit project, it
doesn't sound all bad to me. Liz is also
running — well enough to compete in a
woman's only six mile race and finish well.
Michella English is in her second and
final year at the Yale School of Organization
and Management, with the prospect of
obtaining her Master's in May. She says
that New Haven has the best pizza she has
ever eaten and is close to NYC, but she's
looking forward to being back in Washington
in the fall of 1979.
Denise Wisell Gustafson has been busy
taking care of her young son Aaron. She
also nominated Alix Sommer and Jill Min-
nema to Outstanding Young Women in
America, and they were both chosen.
Jill Minnema is still working for her Dad's
construction company. She is also still enjoy-
ing her work as the only woman member of
the Township of Hawthorne, NJ, Planning
Board.
Louise Archer Slater reports that she and
John had a great visit in Houston on their
way back from San Francisco last May.
They got together with Lind Dore', Bev
VanZandt Stelle and Allyson Priest Cook
'73. They went sailing on Bev's boat and
Lind arranged a trip for them to the Alley
Theatre. Louise also says they are expecting
a baby boy in January and are involved in
an extensive renovation of their house.
Cindie Cook reports that she is still hard
at work on her Ph.D. in reading and lan-
guage arts education. She is also a teaching
assistant, teaching undergraduate courses in
her field and working in an alternative teacher
education program. She loves it but will be
pleased when she has finished her degree.
The news from Sheboygan, Wl, is that
Linda Lewis Brauer and Warren are settled
now that he has finished his family practice
residency. They live a block from Lake
Michigan and love the country there. Their
twin boys are a year old and Linda is prac-
ticing children's dentistry two days a week.
She says she never thought she'd go to work
to relax! They spent a day with Kathy Wilson
Martin and her husband and children when
they were in Sheboygan this summer visiting
Kathy's sister.
Linda Barbeck Becker says they are en-
joying living in Casper. WY, and the beautiful
countryside in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado.
She has returned to work as a medical tech-
nologist in a private medical laboratory and
her job, along with her yard, keeps her busy.
The news from the Richmond area this
year seems to be that all is well with few big
changes. Wendy Norton Brown says she
and Lee are enjoying their new house and
their two-year-old son David, but otherwise
all is quiet.
Another report that all is well comes from
Liz Mumford, who teaches art to grades
1-8. She did report that she took an excellent
lithography course this summer. She even
enjoyed hand-cranking a press in 101 degree
weather!
In Grand Rapids, Nancy Wood Ambrosino
and Drake and one-year-old Benjamin are
looking forward to a cold, snowv winter. Of
course, if you have a shop devoted to cross-
country skiing and biking you would too!
From Houston Mimi Boyd Yount an-
nounced that her son is now a big brother.
Katherine joined the family in September,
bringing more happiness and more chaos.
Mimi says they will soon have t" look for a
bigger house as theirs seems to get smaller
and smaller.
By the time this is printed C lire Kinnett
Tate says she and John will be resettled in
Charlotte. NC. John's home town, where he
will be a banker.
We know that Lendon Grav is always
riding, but it's fun to know where. She is
living full time in Maine, schooling, teaching
and learning herself. She spe^t a month
competing in England and Germany with
the USET. This fall with thrc horses she
won a national championship an I two reserve
national championships. Her family is build-
ing an indoor arena so that the whole horse-
mad family can ride through the Maine
winter. Lendon is working in hopes of trying
out for the Pan-American Games in Puerto
Rico next year and, to quote her, "There's
always Moscow in '80 to look forw ard to!"
I heard from Leigh Edens Hudgins' mother-
in-law that she had won an International
Rotary Scholarship and she and Wren are
now living in Grenoble. They traveled in
France, Switzerland. Poland. Russia and
Scandinavia before arriving in Grenoble.
From Powhatan, VA, Marg iret Mackie
Sanders reports that she is in he last year
of her radiology residency. She also had a
son this month!
Half-way across the country from Mar-
garet Mackie Sanders, Barb Wuehrmann
is in the final year of her family practice
residency in Grand Rapids. She is unsure of
her destination after July but she is consider-
ing Colorado, Northern California and the
Virginia-D.C. area. But if anyone has a job
opening, let her know, she'll consider all
offers.
Another serious runner in our midst is
Cathy Gross Hendren. She wrote that she is
averaging over 25 miles a week and increasing
her distance all the time. She says it is the very
best confidence builder she's ever found and
she feels wonderful.
The biggest change in Dorrie Wedzig
Brand's life is her son John. She and Skip
live in Elmira, NY, but she manages to get
home to Colorado fairly often.
Anne Howe Nelson and John were expect-
ing their first child in October. They are
still in the Air Force in Forth Worth and Anne
is busy with Junior League, two six-month -
old Labrador Retrievers and other projects.
Martha Stewart Crosland and Ed have
had an active year chasing after their little
girl Helen. Martha is an attorney with the
General Counsel's office of the Dept. of
Energy. Martha reports that she was in
Sherrill Marks Byrd's wedding this past
April and enjoyed seeing Louise Archer Slater
there.
Carol Remington Foglesong. Rick and
son Eric have become entrenched in Amherst,
MA. Rick is teaching at Amherst and Carol
is working for Mt. Holyoke in the Develop-
ment Office. She says she now understands
why we all get so many pleas for money, now
that she's asking other people for their
money!
In Alabama Linda Whitlow Knight had a
big piece of news. In October she got to argue
an appellate case before the Alabama
Supreme Court. Then she and Dick and
daughter Katherine spent a week in Vir-
ginia, staying with Linda's old roommate
Marilyn Kolb Lipton and her husband
Michael. Marilyn is an attorney in D.C. Linda
had a few other short pieces of news to pass
on. Mimi Pitts Dixon and Jim are expecting
a child as are Caroline Tattle Murray and
her husband Rick. While attending a party
after a football game at VMI, Linda ran
into Kathy Jones Youell. Linda enjoys
practicing both law and motherhood full
time.
Betty Duson has completed her first year
as a Staff Psychologist with the U. of Houston
Counseling Center. In addition, she has
a private practice and is co-authoring a book
for educators on death and dying. She has
also gotten very involved with the Houston
Symphony's Student Audition Committee.
Judy Brown Fletcher is busy in Gaines-
ville, FL. with Katie, Will and husband Steve.
She is a volunteer in Katie's class, education
chairman for the Junior League of Gaines-
ville and is on the board of the Alachua
Council on Child Abuse.
And last, but certainly not least, my news.
In June, 1978, I set out for Houston in my
little Pinto with my two Golden Retrievers.
That alone most people think is crazy but I
had some visiting to do. I spent one night in
Atlanta with Pat Connor Bland's parents.
Pat was there for the weekend from Wash-
ington where she and Bruce have been living
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for four years. Last spring they bought a super
townhouse in the Occaquan area. They still
do a lot of camping and I've finally figured
out what Pat does. She works for an agency
of the Federal Government that controls
and audits credit unions throughout the
country.
Next I traveled to Montgomery. AL. for
four days with good friends Frances Barnes
Kennamer and Seabie. He is with the Social
Security Office in Montgomery, and Frances
is Information Specialist for the Bureau of
Clinical Services in the Alabama Dept. of
Health. Her volunteer service for the Junior
League is teaching cardiopulmonary
resusciation: she's an affiliate faculty mem-
ber with the American Heart Association
and co-chairman of the Central Alabama
CPR Committee. She is also president of
one of Montgomery's mystic Mardi Gras
societies.
From Montgomery it was straight through
to Houston and Brooke Thomas Dold and
Wylie and their cat Magruder. 1 was quite
impressed that my old college roomie could
have such a lovely home, and my dogs were
impressed by the air conditioning! Wyle is
with Tenneco. and Brooke continues her
work as a para-legal. She's also helping her
office by being on their bowling team and is
an officer of the newly formed Houston
Legal Assistants Association. She and Wylie
visited her parents in their new home in
Hartford, CT, this fall and treated Wylie to
his first visit to New England during the
colorful fall foliage.
After leaving Houston. I headed north and
east to spend the summer in New Jersey with
my family. We live just outside Atlantic
City; so I went over and pulled a few one-
armed bandits and fled with my winnings,
never to return! I'm in my second year of
teaching pre-school handicapped children in
rural Southside Virginia. I thoroughly enjoy
my job. and so I'm back in school at VCU
learning more about it. I enjoy hearing from
everyone and hope that the news I write will
encourage more of you to write me.
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Secretary
Melissa Greenwood Riemer (Mrs. Jeffrey).
2230 Pioneer Rd., Evanston, IL 60201
Fund Agent
Sandra Vonetes. The Monroe House, 522
21st St.. NW., Apt. 605, Washington, DC
20006
Marriages
Cece Gark to Thomas Turner. June 3, 1978
Dorothy Doree to Johnny Edw ard Marshall
Carolyn Gaisford to John M. Bell. March 18.
1978
Melissa Greenwood to Jeff Riemer, April 22.
1978
Beth Jones to Stephen Elkins, October 7,
1978
Heather Macleod to Barry Gale, June 3, 1978
Ashley Randle to Basil Richards. June 10.
1978
Ginny Shipe to Dennis Scott Cameron. Mav
20. 1978
Betsy Skinner to Fred Thompson, November,
1977
Rose Ann Toppin to John Foster Cranz.
April 1, 1978
Elizabeth Washabaugh to James E. Jarvis.
December 25. 1977
Ann Wesley to Rick Ramsey. April 1. 1978
Engagements
Jeannie Petersen to Tom Laskey
Worden Willis to Dale Galasso
Births
Elizabeth Brownrigg to Betsy Brooks and
Tom Jones, June 28. 1978 (1st child)
Oscar McDuffie IV to Yvonne Collier and
Oscar Gwin, June 25. 1978 (1st child)
Anne Shelton to Buffy She/ton and Jim
Montgomery. June 28. 1978 (2nd child)
Meghan Romaine McKenrick to Kathie
Shirk, February 25, 1978 (1st child)
Joseph Grant Jr. to Barbie Tafel and Joe
Grant. April 27. 1978 (1st child)
Melissa Dawn to Bonnie Walton and Jerry
Mayberry, December 14. 1978 (1st child)
Elaine Altice Baker is "still alive, well and
kicking" in Baltimore. At the time she wrote,
she and Robert were getting in gear to cele-
brate their two-year anniversary!
Jody Anderson is still living and working
in Washington. DC. She was in Chicago
last summer on business. She came out to
our house and had dinner with Jeff and me
one night and we had a great time reminiscing
and catching up on all the news. I then got
to see her again in October at Beth Jones
Elkins' wedding in Baltimore. In between
all this, she has also managed to add, among
others, California and South Carolina to her
list of travels!
Randy Anderson has bought a con-
dominium in Vail, CO, and has declared it
"home." She is still teaching skiing full-
time in the winter and loving it. She is also
selling real estate and running a ski hat
manufacturing company (which she and
her partner hope to branch out to include
sweaters, socks, etc.). Her spare time (?) is
spent biking and hiking as much as possible.
Patti Blalock Tinnin and John bought a
big. old house in an historical part of the
Dallas inner city that is being renovated.
They have found little time for anything
else except working on their house as they
are completely re-doing it.
Jeannette Block DePoy is working on a
28-bed adult psychiatric unit at the Ga.
Mental Health Institute as a social work
technician. She does "everything from putting
on Band-aids to doing therapy with the
patients." Scott is working with the Atlanta
Children's Theatre. He is also playing violin
with a jazz band called "Nick's Flamingo
Grill" which plays '30's and '40's jazz and
swing.
Betsy Brooks Jones and Tombo are en-
joying their new addition. Brownrigg. From
Raleigh where they saw, among other
SBC-ers. Nancy Wilson Tucker and Carol
Brewer Evans, they moved Dec. 1 to Franklin,
where Tombo is an engineer with union Camp
Corp.
Cece Clark Turner and Thomas are living
in Salem. VA. where he is Director of Annual
Giving and Alumni Activities for Roanoke
College. Cece was job-hunting at the time
she wrote.
Carol Clement is the office manager for
an employment service in southern California.
Though she isn't dancing now, she is getting
her exercise by jogging on the beach almost
every day and is learning to roller skate on
the Strand, where she reports the skaters
almost outnumber the joggers!
Anne Cogswell Burris has had a year filled
with reunions and partying with SBC-ers . . .
and the occasion for most of the reunions
has been weddings. First, there was Ann
Wesley Ramsey's wedding in Winston-
Salem. NC. in which Anne was matron of
honor; then Ginny Shipe Cameron's wedding
in which Anne was a bridesmaid. Then Beth
Montgomery visited with Anne and husband
Lon in their home in Charleston, SC. in
July. And then Anne saw Suzanne Wright
later in the summer in Kiawah. And then
back to another wedding — this time it was
Jane Perry Bean's wedding to Jeff in Charles-
ton. SC. For that wedding, Anne and Lon
had Wendy Wise, Chris Hoefer and Ann
Wesley Ramsey and husband Rick ("Rocket")
as houseguests and reports they never stopped
partying. Somehow, Anne and Lon also
managed to spend a week at Caneel Bay
in the Virgin Islands for a great second
honeymoon.
Yvonne Collier Gwin is finding mothering
to be a full-time job though she is managing
to fit a little tennis and some volunteer work
into her schedule. Her husband Oscar is
keeping busy with his job as an engineer
estimator for Gaines Wilson and Son in New-
Orleans and with his pursuit of an MBA
from Tulane U.'s School of Business Ad-
ministration at night.
Mary Combs is loving life in Houston and
her job, friends, tennis, the cowboys, etc.
She and Kit Newman '76 are the AR's for
SBC in Houston which keeps her very busy
as does her membership in the Junior League.
Marybeth Connor sends greetings from
sunny Florida! She completed work on her
masters at Simmons in Dec. 1977, and then
landed a job in Naples, FL, as a reference
librarian at the Collier County Public Library.
Catherine Cranston Whitham is now
running the management training program
for Thalhimers in Richmond. This includes
teaching merchandising techniques, etc.
to all the junior executives on their way to
becoming buyers or store managers. She
and husband Whit have built a house in the
mountains of North Carolina, where they
hope to spend week-ends and vacations.
Beverley Crispin Heffernan and husband
Jim had just returned from a two-week
vacation to France when she wrote in October.
They are still in Washington, DC. where
they both work for the Dept. of Energy. And
their "fleet of horses has grown to three!"
Lynn Dann Stockebrand and Tom have
bought a house in Denver plus a third dog
(they're breeding Springer Spaniels). Lynn
is working with Associates Finance as an
assistant manager.
Betty Davis Myers is in her fourth year
of teaching at the Madison Hts. Elementary
School. The kids at school are keeping her
on the go, as is her own three-year old —
Christina!
Stephanie Dewey graduated from Memphis
State in May with a degree in graphic design.
At the time she wrote, she was doing free-
lance work and looking for a full-time job
in Memphis. Stephanie had run into Ann
South at Beth Burton's (SBC '74) wedding
and had heard from Cora Snyder, who is in
Paris!
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Louisa Dixon is working full-time in the
office of the French Dept. at UVa and is
finishing up her masters in education little
by little.
Dorothy Doree Marshall went on to receive
her B.A. in theatre from Sophie Newcomb
in New Orleans after spending one year at
SBC. She then spent time travelling to
Europe, Mexico and Jamaica. She also had
a small part in an old James Bond movie.
And then she became extremely interested
in law enforcement. That led to a stint of
undercover work for a parish sheriffs office,
after which she went through the training
academy and worked as a deputy for about
two years. She is now working for her father's
brick company. She hopes to return to law-
enforcement work in the near future, but
husband Johnny Edward, who is also a
policeman, says. "One cop in the family is
enough for now!"
Mary Dubuque has moved back to St.
Louis from Stowe. VT. Her plans were to go
to school in January to get some training
in preschool education. In the meantime,
she was working in the fur department of
Leppert-Roos and taking tennis and belly
dancing lessons. Mary spent three weeks
in Spain last spring and stayed with Suky
Smith and Mary Henningsen while in Madrid.
Jeannette Egli Stamm and husband have
moved to Delaware where Jeannette is cur-
rently an officer in the Air National Guard.
She hopes to start work on her master's
degree sometime this year at the U. Of
Delaware.
Katherine Ehle has been working as a
permanent substitute teacher in Fairfax
County. VA, for the past year and a half.
At night, she works as a Princess House
consultant. She has become very interested
in antiques and has learned to refinish them
and sell them for a little profit.
Anne Fetch Park and David have left
Virginia and have settled in "cold New Hamp-
shire." where David is working for a small
law firm and Anne is job hunting. She says
New Hampshire is beautiful and they are
loving living there!
Linda Frazier Keith has her hands full
and is having lots of fun with one-year old
Catherine who is "walking, talking and
getting into everything." Linda is teaching
again — this time it's 10th grade biology in a
high school with 1,565 students. Jules is in
his last year of medical school and they were
to find out by the end of October where he
will be doing his residency. So they will be
moving in June. When she wrote, Linda
was looking forward to returning to SBC for
Alumnae Council when she and Ellen Harri-
son would be "roomies" again.
Martha French has had some year! Until
January, she was living and studying at an
Episcopal community on Cape Cod. She
then planned a trip to Europe in the spring.
She has finished her masters as a reading
specialist at Ariz. State U. and plans to work
in this area in the fall. Martha met Carol
Leslie St. John and Liz Anne Potts Fisher '76
in Florida. She went through Pennsylvania
to see Kathie Shirk and her new baby. On
her way back from Nassau in April, she went
to Rose Anne Toppin Cranz's wedding,
where she saw Debra Sharp, Mary Henning-
sen, Dorsey Tillet Northrup. Neil Hunter.
Joe Ellen Lenoir. Nan Cunningham and
Kit Newman '76. She went to the Interna-
tional Reading Conference in Houston in
May. And she spent the summer scuba diving
in Mexico and taking French cooking
lessons . . . whew!
Carolyn Gaisford Bell and John are all
settled down and living in the gatehouse
on the Heinz estate in Pittsburgh near where
they both grew up. Carolyn is still working
at Gulf Oil doing investments for their
foundation portfolio. She also has special
projects which have taken her to New York
City and Canada, and she hopes to go
to California this winter.
Cathie Grier graduated from Gordon
Conwell Theological Seminary in May with
an M.T.S. in New Testament. Then she
worked at Radcliffe College at the Bunting
Institute organizing colloquia and social
events for "fellows" (women). In October
she moved to Charlotte, NC. and has been
relaxing and visiting SBC friends. She
expected to job hunt after Christmas.
Nancy Haight, according to my sources.
is teaching school near Boston.
Ellen Harrison is still loving her job as
Director of Career Planning and Placement
for Wilson College in Chambersburg. PA.
She is also very involved with the Mental
Health Assoc, in Chambersburg which is
very rewarding. I saw Ellen at Beth Jones
Elkins' wedding in October and she looks
as great as ever! After the wedding, she was
going on down to SBC for the Alumnae
Council. She wrote me after the Council
and told me all that she had seen, which
included Step Singing, seeing the Bum
Chums wear their scarves one day. the Half-
Ass show and lots of faculty and students.
Also, just to keep you all informed, the
athletic teams are booming in popularity.
So there was a contest to come up with a
name for the teams and "the Vixens" was
the winner. So all the items in the Bookstore
(like coasters, glasses, etc.) have Sweet
Briar and a fox on them. Ellen also asked
me to remind everyone that our five-year
reunion will be in May. 1980 (can you believe
it?). She will be sending us all a letter in the
summer but this is just to remind us ahead
of time.
Ann Henderson Stamets and Jay have
moved from Pensacola to Sicily where they
have lived for over a year. Though day to
day living has its trials and tribulations,
they're finding it interesting and, needless
to say, the travel opportunities are great.
They've already been to Germany, Greece.
England and Scotland and plan a trip to
Oktoberfest, a tour of Italy and a trip to
Spain before they leave next year.
Mary Henningsen, according to my sources.
has returned home from Madrid. She is
working on Wall Street in New York and
living in the city.
Helen Hodges Richards and Steve are
still in Los Angeles, where he is working on
his MBA. Helen is working and considering
working on her master's in library science.
She also sang in four concerts during the
last year!
Chris Hoefer found 1978 to be an exciting
year of travel in her position of Field Producer
for Studio See. The first of 26 programs
was aired on PBS stations all over the country
in October. She even learned how to scuba
dive while producing an underwater feature
in the Cayman Islands. B.W.I. When she
wrote, she was developing a series of training
programs for social services in the South-
eastern U. S. and was working as producer.
which she has looked forward to. since she
is her own boss! Chris was a bridesmaid in
Jane Pern Bean's wedding in Charleston,
SC, in September, along with Betsy Burdge
Murphy and Wendy Wise. Chris reported
the SBC group took over Charleston and
had a great time.
Ginny Holden is living in Chicago and
attending De Paul Law School. School is
keeping her busy but content, with work on
law review and as a legal writing tutor for
the freshman class as well as with classes.
And. at the same time, she "is trying to main-
tain at least a semblance of a social life."
Ginny is loving Chicago and after a year of
living there, she still doesn't find it boring.
Beth Jones Elkins and Stephen are all
settled in their house in Arlington, VA,
after their October wedding and Nantucket
honeymoon. Kathleen Ryan and I were
bridesmaids in her wedding in Baltimore
and had a great time. SBC-ers who were
there were Margaret McFaddin. Jody Ander-
son, Lisa Walker. Ellen Harrison. Sharon
Mangus '74, Nancy Mortenson '74. Galvin
Gentry '76 and Liz Thomas Camp '74.
whose husband was also in the wedding. It
was much fun and a beautiful wedding!
Stephen is a graduate of W&L law school
and is a candidate for his masters in law
(tax) while working as an attorney for the
Dept. of Labor in Washington. DC. Beth
is working as a paralegal for a law firm in
D.C. and is active in the Junior League of
Washington.
Cathy Jones is working her way through
Temple U. — working as a typesetter and
majoring in Radio TV/Film. She hopes to
do film directing and attend law school to
specialize in mass media litigation.
Edie Jones still living in Knoxville. TN,
where she is "on the job interview circuit."
Edie completed her MBA in marketing in
December. 1977.
Carolyn Keeports Doherty and her husband
have moved from Wisconsin to Columbia.
MO. as her husband transferred to graduate
school at the U. of Missouri. Carolyn is
teaching high school biology and chemistry
and liking it a lot!
Christine Kjellstrom Douglas and Alexan-
der are still living in New York City. Alexan-
der is with the Marine Midland Bank and
Christine is teaching first grade at the
Hewitt School in Manhattan.
Mary-Somers Knight has been living in
Japan for over a year and a half, according
to her father who wrote me. She is teaching
spoken English at several companies includ-
ing RCA Victor Records and First National
City Bank and to a group of air traffic control
officers at a small airport near Tokyo. She
also teaches regularly at the YWCA in
Yokohama where "she lives very much a la
japonaise." Somers' plans were to return to
the U. S. this past December (perhaps via
the trans-Siberian reaiway) and probably to
settle in Washington. DC.
Carol Leslie St. John and Tommy arc-
working in New York and were looking for
an apartment in the city when she wrote.
Carol went to the New York School of In-
terior Design last year and is presently
assisting the president of Dorothy Draper
and Co.. an international design firm, which
she finds fantastic and where she finds her
art history background really helpful.
Karin Lindgren spent the summer in
France, where she took graduate courses
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in Avignon through the Bryn Mawr summer
program. Afterwards, she spent a few days in
Paris and ran into Lochrane Coleman '76.
She ended her summer with two weeks of
camping on the Atlantic coast. She is now
back in Ann Arbor. MI. at the U. of Mich,
where she is teaching intermediate French
and working on her doctorate.
Dot Lyons is in her last year of medical
school at Hahnemann and is looking for a
residency in neurology and is finding it hard
to believe that in a few short months she
will be Dr. Lyons. She was able to do a six-
week neurology elective at UVa last spring.
While there, she made several trips to SBC
(her first since our graduation) and had a
lot of fun reliving fun times with her old
roommate Gwynne Taggart. who was on
campus visiting her sister who was a fresh-
man this year.
Heather Macleod Gale and Barry's June
wedding was attended by many SBC-ers
including Ginny Shipe Cameron. Cindy
Smith Spotswood, Francine Ely Cannon.
Jett Groves Blankenship and Sandra and
Maria Vonetes. They went to France on
their honeymoon and are settled down in the
Washington. DC area where both are working
for the Dept. of Energy. When she wrote, she
and Barry were planning a trip to Africa
in December.
Cynde Manning Chatham and John have
moved to Elkin. NC. John is working for
Chatham Manufacturing Company and
Cynde is trying to devise a way to make
hundreds of dollars in her spare time!
Polly Mason is living in Richmond and
teaching kindergarten and seeing a lot of
Ann Wesley Ramsey, Gray Thomas and
Sarah Johann.
Margaret McFaddin is still working with
the S.C. Dept. of Education where she
recently received a promotion. She has gotten
up to D.C. several times over the past year
and saw Jody Anderson, Lisa Walker, el al.
Margaret made it up to Baltimore for Beth
Jones Elkins' wedding in October. And
Jody and Kathleen Ryan got down to Pauley's
Island to visit Margaret in her house there
over the 4th of July. On top of everything
else, Margaret has been actively working as
a volunteer with the gubernatorial campaign
in South Carolina.
Shari Mendelson is publications manager
at the American Society for Industrial
Security. She is in a fast-growing department
with a flourishing magazine. Security Man-
agement, which had its largest (in terms of
advertising and size) issue ever in September.
Her job has given her some travelling, too,
with a trip in the fall to the annual seminar
at the Los Angeles Bonaventure and a stop
in San Francisco on the way home. And as
if a year in George Washington U.'s pub-
lications specialist program wasn't enough.
Shari is now working on her M.B.A. there.
A special section in the Aug. 10 Wall Street
Journal was one that she helped re-write
and edit, and they had been requested to do
another one. In between all that, Shari is
riding to keep in shape.
Marsha Millican is living in Cleveland
and working as the Youth Director of a
settlement house there. Marsha is loving
her job and being able to work with kids.
Beth Montgomery is the "one" in a one-
person office of an association in the D.C.
area. She is still active with the Republican
Party and was a delegate to the Va. Repub-
lican Convention in June. And she has been
to lots of SBC weddings this year which has
given her a chance to see lots of friends and
do lots of partying.
Holly Morrisselt Emison and John are
still in Richmond and are very happy. Holly's
career is flourishing as she is now the division
manager at Snelling and Snelling (the nation's
largest employment agency). She loves her
work and gets to meet a lot of neat people as
well as "some off-the-wall ones, too."
Holly was involved in SBC's Call-A-Thon
where they were calling people to raise money
and had a great time talking to people all
over!
Patty O'Malley is living in Dallas. She is
now the Director of Social Services at Presby-
terian Hospital, which is a new and very re-
warding field for her.
Kathy Sue Orr Knuth and Roger moved
from Detroit to Chicago this year. Kath loves
her job as assistant editor for a trade maga-
zine and loves being back in Chicago. Jeff
and I see our cousins a lot (actually Jeff and
Kath are first cousins so somehow I think
we are all related!) as they only live five
minutes away.
Nelly Osinga decided to change careers
after teaching the 4th grade for three years.
So she started training as a reservations
agent with Delta Airlines in Arlington, VA,
in October. Before her training started,
Nelly spent five weeks in Europe and did
lots of travelling on "the east side of the
Mississippi River."
Pat Parker is working her way up the
ladder at the Glastonbury Bank and Trust
Company, where she is now manager of
the loan servicing department. She is living
alone in a two-family house in East Hartford,
CT, and playing lots of golf. Pat had a
Bermuda golf vacation planned for January
to "get rid of those winter blues."
Jeannine Petersen is teaching sophomore
and junior English at Hughes High School
(an inner-city high school) in Cincinnati.
Though it isn't easy, she's find it challenging
and fun. And her spare time is being spent
planning her June wedding.
Carol Porter got her MBA in banking and
finance in May and joined the savings and
loan she had been working for — "this time as
an officer with a full-time salary and an office
all to myself." In July, she and Dey Passarello
and Dey's sister Nicki travelled to Italy and
Greece and had a great time. Carol was in
Billie Lee Graves' wedding in September.
Kathy Rose was also there; so she got a
chance to visit with her. Carol also finished
needlepointing a kneeler for the SBC Chapel,
which was to be dedicated at the last year's
Founder's Day. Other than all this, Carol isn't
doing much (?) except enjoying being out of
school.
Ashley Randle and Basil Richards are
living in Roanoke after their June wedding
(which was attended by SBC'ers Janice
O'Donnell and Libby Slough Rush) and
honeymoon to Greece where they visited
Athens and the Greek isles. Ashley is still
running E. I. Randle in Roanoke, the
women's clothing store she owns.
Betsy Rawles is working as a computer
consultant and was hoping to get to New York
soon to do a contract. Betsy's biggest news
was that she had bought a townhouse and was
in the midst of decorating and buying
furniture to fill a four-bedroom house!
Janet Richards is living in Denver where
she is a sales receptionist at Michael of
Carlyle Coiffeur. She is also taking modern
dance classes and accompanying modern
dance classes on the piano.
Celia Robertson Rudolph is having fun in
Atlanta working part-time, doing Junior
League work and "just being a wife!" In
October, she started going to English history
seminars which were headed by Dean Sims.
And she and Grant were in southern Georgia
for deer and dove season.
Kathleen Ryan is still working for a real
estate company in Toledo and is "doing all
right after one year of feast or famine!"
Among her plans for the future is a possible
trip to Greece in the spring.
Sallie Scarborough is still living in Atlanta
and working for Southern Airways in sales.
She has been travelling every chance she's
gotten and has taken several cruises as well
as trips to California, Italy and New York,
where she visited Penn Wilcox.
Betsy Scott Kimmel and Dennis were
living in Big Rapids. MI, where she was
teaching special education and he was
finishing his degree in pharmacy. In Decem-
ber, they moved to Philadelphia, where
Dennis is working in the Governmental
Affairs Division of Smith, Kline Corp. and
Betsy is job hunting.
Dolores Scott is attending Boston Col-
lege's School of Social Work and will finish
this spring with a masters in community
organizing and social planning. Last January,
she went with a group from Boston College
for a ten-day visit to Cuba which she found
extremely interesting. She worked at Health
Advocates last summer organizing school
breakfasts in Warwick, R.I.
Buffy Shelton Montgomery and Jim moved
to Beaumont, TX, in August after Jim grad-
uated from SMU law school in May. He is
associated with the law firm of Strong. Pipkin,
Nelson. Parker and Bissell in Beaumont
and Buffy is working part-time at a local
hospital in labor and delivery. They are
thoroughly enjoying' the transition from big
city life and their newest little addition to the
family.
Ginny Shipe Cameron and Dennis' wedding
in May ended up being a mini-reunion for
lots of SBC-ers. Anne Cogswell Burris.
Betsey Clay, Heather Macleod Gale were
all bridesmaids, and Helen Harrison Haywood
was also supposed to be one but, unfortunate-
ly, her eye operation kept her in Miami.
Wendy Wise, Elaine Allice Baker and Anne
Ross were all there, too. Ginny is working in
sales for her dad and Dennis is a lawyer. They
have bought a house in Vienna, VA, outside
D.C. and "are living happily ever after fol-
lowing a St. Thomas honeymoon." Ginny
also got to see lots of SBC-ers at Ann Wesley
Ramsey's wedding and Heather Macleod
Gale's wedding.
Kathie Shirk's 9 lb. 4 oz., 22-inch daughter
has the honor of being the first Boxwood
baby! Her mom graduated from Dickinson
law school in June, took the bar exam in
July and was working for Judge MacPhail
of the Pa. Commonwealth Court while waiting
to hear the results of her bar exam .
Betsy Skinner Thompson transferred to
Tulane after our sophomore year. She worked
as a paralegal until "a tug on my heart pulled
me up to Maine." That tug was Fred Thomp-
son, whom she married in Nov., 1977. Fred
is with the Navy in Brunswick and Betsy is
getting her masters in counseling and secon-
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dary education. She says their real occupa-
tion is restoring their home which was once
part of a now defunct ski area. Betsy reports
the skiing is great it' you don't mind the walk
hack up!
Polly Shriver is in medical school in
Guadelajara. Mexico. She spent last summer
working in the emergency room of Jefferson
Hospital in Philadelphia. PA. and hopes to
return to that area after National Boards
next June.
Libby Slough Rush and Noel have bought
a house in Louisville and have been working
to fix that up. Libby is still working in the
antique, interior design store and otherwise
just having fun.
Barbie Tafel Thomas and Joe are busy
fixing up their 80-year old house which is
fun but very time-consuming. Barbie was
still working in tennis when their 9 lb.. 1 oz.
addition (called Grant) arrived. Libby Slough
Rush and Connie Radford Butt '76 live in
the same neighborhood; so they see each
other quite often (in fact. Libby is Grant's
godmother!).
Dorsey Tilleii Northrup and Frank are
still in Wooster. OH. Dorsey has changed
jobs and is now working for Rubbermaid.
Inc. but hasn't changed her field — she is in
data processing as a computer programmer.
Rose Anne ToppinCranz and John Foster
are happily settled in Ft. Worth after their
April wedding. Mary Henningsen, Neil
Hunter. Dorsey Tilleii Northrup. Jo Ellen
Lenoir and Kit Newman '76 were all in
their wedding. Nan Cunningham and Debra
Sharp also attended. Rose Anne is now
enjoying "a life of leisure" of playing tennis,
volunteer work through the Junior League
and also representing SBC for Ft. Worth.
Rebecca Turcotte Guerin is working at
Revlon. Inc. as a recruiter and Jack is work-
ing with New York City's Emergency Finan-
cial Control Board as a staff analyst over-
seeing the Health and Hospital Corp. They
are still living in Brooklyn Hts.. NY. and had
a great summer at Fire Island.
Lisa Walker was accepted for HUD's
urban-management training program and
has been on the go ever since. This is a year's
training with final placement in HUD central.
Her training is in community planning with
an emphasis on rehabilitation — a training
plan which she designed herself. Her training
has taken her to Baltimore to work with
city planners for six weeks and then to New
York for two months to work with a non-
profit community organization that is doing
great things in the horrible sections of the
South Bronx. Harlem and the lower east
side of New York. Then she went to California
for three months where she worked with
Jerry Brown's new State Housing Commis-
sioner. Don Terner. Lisa is back in D.C.
now and was at Beth Jones Elkins' wedding;
so my ex-roomie and I got to do a lot of
reminiscing and catching up.
Beppy Walton is still loving her job with
Delta Airlines and life in Jacksonville. FL.
She admits that she hasn't been able to
travel to any exotic places because she has
been working too hard, but she hopes to
change all that this year!
Bonnie Walton Mayhem is finding mother-
hood a fantastic experience. Aside from her
job as mother, she is also continuing to
teach first grade at Elon Elementary School
in Amherst County.
Elizabeth Washabaugh Jarvis sold an
acrobatic plane this year that she bought
after graduation but made "another invest-
ment in the field of aviation" when she
married Jim who is a professional pilot. Jim
is the chief flight instructor at the Hagers-
town. MD. airport and FAA Examiner for
the tri-state area. Liz is treasurer of Metal
Finishing. Inc. in Hagerstown. They live on
a 40-acre farm in Pennsylvania located
directly across the Mason-Dixon line.
Mandy Weber is in her last year of law
school at McGeorge School of Law in Sacra-
mento. She is looking forward to being out
of school and to "taking care of the rest of
her life." She saw Leslie Vincent last spring
in San Francisco and invites other SBC-ers
who might be in the area to give her a ring!
Ann Wesley Ramsey and Rick ("Rocket")
are enjoying their life as farmers on the
land they bought in Goochland County (20
miles from Richmond). Ann and Rocket
honeymooned in the Virgin Islands with
Rose Anne Toppin Cranz and "Buz" who
were also honeymooning there. Rick works
for Jarvis. Inc. ("the other telephone com-
pany") but still finds time to build fences
and play with his tractor. Ann sees Gray
Thomas real often as she rides with her and
says Gray has become a terrific nurse!
Sue West is still in nuclear engineering
at MIT and started work on her Ph.D. last
fall. Sue spent two weeks last summer in
England for a conference and had a great
time.
Worden Willis began working last summer
as an assistant trader in the money market
of the MBA evening program at North-
eastern U. in Boston. Worden invites anyone
visiting the Boston area to give her a call!
Kathy Wilson Orton is now assistant vice
president of Texas Commerce Bank and is
a commercial loan officer in the metropolitan
division. She and John love Texas and are
well-settled now in Houston. They had a
busy summer playing lots of tennis and
taking a trip to South Pardre Island as well
as two trips to Mexico. In the fall, they got
to New Orleans for a vacation, as well as
to Hilton Head with Carol Cody Herder '73
and her husband Charlie.
Wendy Wise is living and working in New
York City. And she has had an exciting year
filled "with a slew of weddings." First, she
made it to Ann Wesley Ramsey's wedding
where she saw Gray Thomas, Anne Cogswell
Burris, Chris Hoefer, Suzanne Wright and
Beth Montgomery. Then Wendy went to
Ginny Snipe Cameron's wedding where she
saw Cogs and Beth again along with Betsy
Clay. Heather Macleod. Ann Ross and Elaine
Aliice Baker. And then to Spring Lake for
Betsy Burdge Murphy and Tim's wedding
where Wendy saw Johnna Pierce and Con-
stance Scott. Finally, Wendy was a bridesmaid
in Jane Perry Bean and Jeffs wedding in
Charleston, SC, along with Chris Hoefer
and Betsy Burdge Murphy. She ended her
note with "So this old maid had a super
year!"
And, I. Melissa Greenwood Riemer, have
had a full year, too! First, there was planning
and getting ready for our wedding (and I
used to thing getting ready for An Ass show
was hectic!). It was a fun day and everything
went off fine. Beth Jones Elkins and Kathy
Sue Orr Knuth were bridesmaids and Penny
Czarra and Mary Helen Cox were able to
get out here for it which was great. Jeff and
I then spent two weeks in Ireland on our
honeymoon which was tremendous! We
then returned home and spent the summer
working on our 60-year old house (we still
aren't finished!). I am in midst of job hunting
at the time I write this as I quit my job on
the corporate public relations staff of Mont-
gomery Ward because I finally decided it
wasn't right for me. Jeff is working very hard
as a project manager with Schal Associates
(a construction management firm here in
Chicago). Other than that, there isn't much
to report except that 1 am loving married
life and am even starting to make progress
on my cooking! Please call if you ever get to
Chicago. And thanks once again for all your
help on this. I love hearing from all of you!
LOVERS OF ALL BULBS,
PLEASE READ:
Many of you may be aware of the fact
that our Amaryllis Project this year bordered
on disaster. We are so grateful for the
patience and tolerance of many alumnae
and friends who have been disappointed
over the non-arrival of their orders in time
for Christmas. We, too, have been frustrated,
especially since most of the problems were
beyond our control to solve. A series of un-
believable situations led to the fiasco. This is
an effort to simplify a very complicated
explanation:
As you probably know, the project has
always belonged to the Washington Club
which has handled it with efficiency and
success. This year the chairman, who is a
volunteer, had to resign for good reason,
but unfortunately, the order blanks and
other materials had already been printed
with her name and post office box number.
A new and enthusiastic alumna took over
this demanding assignment and with very
little help has done an excellent job of pro-
cessing orders and sending them to our
supplier. However, the Washington post
office held many orders, and instead of
forwarding them daily to the chairman, we
discovered that they held some for days, or
even weeks before sending them on. Some
orders were not received by her until after
Christmas, and many in terrible condition,
almost illegible.
Our supplier, who had the amaryllis boxed
and ready for shipment in Connecticut got
caught in a cold wave, and as UPS would
not guarantee safe delivery in 20 degree
temperature, many bulbs were held up
waiting for a break in the weather (since a
frozen bulb does not bloom).
There are other individual problems, but
these related to almost everybody.
We are heartsick over your disappoint-
ment, and hope very much (hat you will try
to understand and will continue to give us
your support, not only for the spring bulb
sales, but also for next fall when we again
offer our beautiful and impressive amaryllis.
We can assure you that changes will be made
in the procedure which we hope will guaran-
tee against any chance of a recurrence of this
year's problems. Ineidently, the quality of
the bulbs has been superb, and those who
have received them are delighted.
Thank you, always, for your loyalty and
confidence in us, and we apologize profusely
for letting you down when you were counting
on us. If there had been anything we could
have done to prevent it, we surely would
have done so!
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Alumnae Daughters and Granddaughters
1978-79
Freshmen, Class of 1982
Dansie Lee Allen
Danielle Bielenstein
Mary Ames Booker
Ethel Burwell
Margaret Camblos
Polly Clarkson
Meredith Ann Cook
Elizabeth Frenzel
Mary Courtney McKenna
Laura Leigh Noble
Berrien Pitts
Robin Piatt
Lucile Redmond
Camille Taylor
Celia Ann Warren
Ann Young
Sophomores, Class of 1981
Lisa Allison
Mary Boiling
Julia Brooke
Sigrid Carlen
Ann Cleland
Windsor Cleveland
Laurie Coe
Ellen Hagan
Nancy Hanger
Harriet Harrison
Caroline Hawk
Libby Landen
Marti Maclnnes
Felicia Nelson
Sue Pflugfelder
Susan Richeson
Nell Stephens
Elizabeth Webster
Henrietta White
Pam Wood
Wendi Wood
16 daughters and/or granddaughters
Ann Stevens '56
Gabrielle Maupin '52
Catharine Fitzgerald '47
Ethel Ogden '58
Ruth Hensley '42
Sister: Stuart Camblos '70
Kirkland Tucker '53
Joan Kells '55
Cynthia Wilson '57
Claudia Antrim '48
Grandmother: Frances McCamish '26
Ruth Carpenter '58
Dorothy DeVore '44
Mary McDuffie '47
Sister: Frances Redmond '77
Camille Williams '55
Mary Elizabeth Grafe '52
Marion Mundy '42
21 daughters and/or granddaughters
Grandmother: Lillis Spratt '36
Brantley Lamberd '49
Julia Olive Craig '58
Marcia Sandra Rhodes '55
Lois Andrews '47
Sister: Cathy Cleland '78
Burney Parrott '55
Sally Gillespie '55
Sister: Sharon Coe '76
Alice Trout '49
Sister: Lisa Hagan '79
Sudie Clark '42
Sisters: Libby Hanger '65
Susan Hanger '74
Sarah Swift '53
Janis Thomas '52
Elizabeth Todd '50
Grandmother: Ruth Ulland '22
Gail Haugan '57
Diane King '48
Ann Allen '54
Celia Loving '58
Elynor Neblett '57
Langhorne Tuller '58
Grandmother: Henrietta Tucker AC (dec.)
Diane Duffield '57
Jane Yoe '53
Juniors, Class of 1980
Allison Brandon Becker
Ellen Clement
True Dow
Martha McCaleb
Frances Marshall McClung
Catherine Lotterhos Mills
(France)
Randi Mulholland (fall
sem./Dennison)
Francie Root
Florence Rowe
Heidi Van Patten (fall
sem./ Amsterdam)
Elisabeth Ward
Phyllis Watt (St. Andrews)
Anne Brandon Wood
(St. Andrews)
Fannie Zollicoffer (France)
Alumnae
Notices
14 daughters and/or granddaughters
Nancy Neighbors '57
Grandmother: Marjorie Stone '27 (dec.)
Martha Mansfield '48
Sisters: Sarah Clement '75
Anne Clement '78
Barbara Birt '51
Elizabeth Hutchens '50
Margaret Graves '53
Grandmother: Margaret Burwell '23 (dec.)
Catherine Lotterhos '56
Anne Parker Carroll '56
Mary Ann Mellen '53
Grandmother: Frances Burnett '25 (dec.)
Anne Wilson '57
Sister: Jeanete Rowe '79
Grandmother: Lucelia McClain AC (dec.)
Sloan Hawkins '44
Helen Gravatt '44
Dorothy Wallace '49
Sister: Elizabeth Wood '78
Jane Lewis '50
Seniors, Class of 1979
Karen Sue Alex
Laura Bowen
Page Breakell
Sally Byron
Jane Barron Clark
Lynne DeLong Einsel
Katie Ewald
Katherine Grones
Alice Trout Hagan
Mary Harris
Barbara Mallett
Jeanette Rowe
Judith Williams
13 daughters and/or granddaughters
Susan Chapin '58
Laura Hailey '56
Edith Page Gill '45
Lynn Kerwin '53
Jane Barron Black '56
Grace DeLong '52
Jane Roseberry '52
Evelyn Dillard '45
Sister: Keedie Grones '76
Alice Trout '49; Sister: Ellen Hagan '81
Elizabeth Trueheart '49
Mary Virginia Grigsby '49
Anne Wilson '57
Sister: Florence Rowe '80
Emory Gill '40
Sisters: Dabney Williams '65
Melinda Williams '73
Special Ecology Programs for 1979 with Dr. Ernest P. Edwards, Duberg Professor of Ecology
May 5. 1979 Birds and Wild/lowers of
the Blue Ridge Mountains — $18.00 per
person*
7:00 a.m. -4:30 p.m.
Depart Sweet Briar about 7:00 a.m. and
return about 4:30 p.m. Visit Petit Gap. Cave
Mountain Lake, Sunset Field. Peaks of Otter,
and Thunder Ridge, on and near the Blue
Ridge Parkway. Brunch and lunch en route.
Minimum — 3 persons; Maximum — 12.
Ernest P. Edwards — Birds; Trees & General
Ecology; Mabel T. Edwards — Wildflowers
May 25-30. 1979 Birds and the Natural
World — $175 per person* (Day Students —
$85*)
A non-credit course in Ornithology and
Ecology. Friday afternoon to Wednesday
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morning. Field trips, lectures, individual or
small-group projects in Bird-Song Recording.
Bird Photography. Bird Banding, etc.. on
or near the 3400-acre Sweet Briar College
property; and an all-day field trip to the
Blue Ridge Parkway. $175.00 fee covers
full room and board and tuition. $85.00 fee
for day students covers tuition only. Minimum
age — 20 years. Some scholarships available.
Minimum enrollment — 5 persons; Maximum
—14.
Deposits and Fees
For Birds and the Natural World, or
Birds and Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge
Parkway $10.00 non-refundable (tax-
deductible) deposit per person holds space.
*10% discount for Sweet Briar Alumnae.
Faculty. Staff. Emeriti, and their immediate
families.
To: Dr. Ernest P. Edwards, Special Ecology
Programs. Sweet Briar College. Sweet
Briar. Va. 24595
Please send further information about
I enclose:
$10.00 per person, non-refundable
deposit for:
Birds and Wildflowers of the Blue
Ridge Mountains
Birds and the Natural World
Name(s)
Address:
Zip Code
Recent Deaths
Mrs. Wharton Weems (Matilda Booth AC)
December 1978
Mrs. John C. Pogue (Fave Elliott AC) October
1978
Mrs. W. H. Rogers (Otelia Medlin AC) no
date
Mrs. Seawillow W. Stafford (Seawillow
Ward AC) October 29. 1978
Mrs. John F. House (Grace Woodard AC)
November 7. 1978
Mrs. Donald C. McClelland (Irene Milhol-
landSP) October 18. 1978
Mrs. Chester H. Prince (Marjorie Couper
' 10) November 1978
Mrs. George H. Stapely (Elanette Sollitt '18)
December 14. 1977
Mrs. George Pope (Dorothy Travis '23)
October 18. 1978
Miss Kate Tappen Coe C29) December 5.
1978
Mrs. James C. Barbour (Sara Wilson '33)
December b. 1978
Mrs. Francis Haveron (Dorothy Evans '38)
September 24. 1978
Mrs. William Albert Salmon (Priscilla
Rhodes '39) November 24. 1978
Mrs. C. Afred Duke (Ruth Goodwin '40)
September 1978
Mrs. Alfred C Moore (Clara Nicol '46)
November 3, 1978
Miss Elizabeth G. Caldwell C47) October
19. 1978
Maclin P. Davis, Sr.
1899-1978
Maclin Paschall Davis, Sr., of Nashville,
father of Mrs. Harold B. Whiteman. Jr..
died at his home October lb at the age of
seventy-nine, after an apparent heart attack.
He is survived by his wife. Edith Uhler
Davis, two daughters. Mrs. Whiteman and
Mrs. C. Penn Owen. Jr.. a son. Maclin P.
Davis. Jr.. a brother, two sisters and nine
grandchildren.
Mr. Davis.* a prominent Nashville business
and civic leader, was chairman of the Board
of the Tennessee Foundry and Machine
Company. He attended Choate School,
served in the U. S. Army from 1913 to 1918
and in 1921 was graduated from Harvard,
where he was a member of the Signet Society
and the Delphic and Hasty Pudding Clubs.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Davis
Memorial Fund. Checks or gifts may be sent
to the Development Office. Sweet Briar. VA,
24595.
*As the Magazine was being prepared we
were notified thai Mrs. Whiteman s mother
had died on December 27. Gifts in Mrs.
Davis ' name may be made to the Davis Memo-
rial Fund. Development Office. Sweet Briar.
VA 24595. (Ed.)
Who's Who
Nineteen Sweet Briar students have been
selected as among the country's outstanding
campus leaders. Their names will be included
in the 1978-79 edition of Who's Who Among
Students in American Universities and
Co/leges.
From the senior class: Susan Andrews.
Robin Behm. Hannah Craighill. Katie Ewald,
Lisa Hagen, Cathy Harold, Mary Harris.
Nancy Hatch. Clara Jackman. Cindi Little.
Day Pritchartt. Pam Ramsdell. Phyllis
Shelton and Ashley Wilson.
From the junior class: Nancy Bade. Amy
Campbell, Claire Dennison. Gina Nielson
and Florence Powell.
Nominations were made by junior and
senior students, faculty members and ad-
ministrators. Nominations then were reviewed
by a selection committee composed of repre-
sentatives from the student body, faculty
and administration. Criteria for selection
included above average achievement in both
academic pursuits and campus/community
involvement. A minimum grade point average
(GPA) requirement of 2.5 (with a recom-
mended 2.8) was introduced this year.
Sweet Briar's nominees join an elite group
of students selected from more than 1.000
institutions of higher learning in all fifty
states, the District of Columbia and several
foreign nations.
Music Scholarships
The College awarded music scholarships
to the following SBC students. 1978-79:
Fall term: Martha Freeman '81. Lee Estill
Coghill Voice Scholarship; Julia Brooke
'81. Coghill Scholarship; Jean Goulder '80.
Presser Foundation Music Scholarship;
Katharine Habeeb '82, Katherine Myers '82,
Katherine Jones '82. Alice Benton '79. Kelly
Jernigan '81. Aimee Kass '79, Letha Dameron
'81. scholarships from the John A. Moore
Endowed Music Fund; Ginger Pierson '79.
Helen F. Young Scholarship.
Spring term: Martha Freeman '81.
Katharine Jones '82, Sarane McHugh '81,
Amy Marshall '81, Katherine Myers '82,
Letha Dameron '81, Jean Goulder '80. Kelly
Jernigan '80, Ginger Pierson '79. Alice Benton
'79. Aimee Kass '79. Ruth Reid '81 and Julia
Brooke '81.
Chairman of the Music Department Anne
Swartz stated that twenty-eight students
auditioned for the scholarships. "There
were so many outstanding, talented students.
We were sorry we did not have the funds to
recommend more scholarships."
Study Tour to Greece
The Dean's office announces that the
College is offering one post-commencement
course in 1979: Jeff Beaubier's Tour to
Greece. May 14-June 10. 1979. This "post-
winter term field trip to Greece and the
Aegean Islands may be taken in lieu of a
winter term course. Opportunities for field-
work among living populations on the culture
and folkways of Modern Greek Society and
also from the perspective of the continuous
and enduring contributions of Greek Civili-
zation to Western Culture. Maximum en-
rollment: 10; minimum, even if only one or
two students enroll, the course will be held.
Cost: SI, 890. Credit: one unit; three two-hour
meetings."
Mr. Beaubier states that travel to Greece
requires a valid passport and that a total of
$1,890 must be sent to the College by May 1.
For complete details — itinerary, hotels, day-
trips — please write to Professor Jeff Beau-
bier. Sweet Briar. VA 24595. or call him at:
(804) 381-5839. his home phone number.
His office number is: (804)381-5612.
TRAVEL FOR ALL SEASONS
Tentative Schedule of Trips Sponsored by the Alumnae Association
Second Sailing: South of Suez aboard the yacht Argonaut (with land trips to Cairo, Thebes, Petra, etc. I
March 22-April 1, 1979
Wanted: Instruments
Look in your attic! Look in your closets!
Remember when you and your daughter
studied music and you didn't know what to do
with that instrument when the music lessons
stopped? Don't worry. We have the solution
for your problem. Donate that long forgotten,
but beloved (and preferably still playable) in-
strument to the Sweet Briar Music Depart-
ment. Help a budding instrumentalist get her
start at Sweet Briar!
Especially welcome are: strings (violin,
viola, cello, guitar), woodwinds (piccolo, tlute.
clarinet, bassoon, saxophone), brasses (trum-
pet, cornet. French horn, trombone) and per-
cussion instruments.
If you have any questions, please contact
the Music Department.
Nominee for Board of Overseers
In accordance with the constitution of the
Alumnae Association, the Executive Board
has selected Catherine Cox Reynolds '49 of
West Hartford. Conn, as the candidate for the
Board of Overseers of Sweet Briar College.
Her name was published in the Winter 1978
issue of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Magazine.
Since no additional names were sent to the
office of the Director of the Alumnae Associa-
tion this ballot is presented.
London
May 31 -June 8, 1979
Rhine Cruise with 3 days in Brussels and 3 days in Munich
August 7-17, 1979
Sicily
October 17-23, 1979
Bavarian Holiday with attendance at the Oberammergau Passion Play
July, 1980
SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE
ASSOCIATION OFFICIAL BALLOT
I vote lor (he candidate named for alumna
member of the Board of Overseers.
Signed
Return to: Alumnae Office, Sweet Briar,
Va. 24595
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• • I^T ot since wives took jobs." the Wall Street
X^\ Journal reports, "has life in Morton Grove
been the same." In this Illinois village, as in other
towns and cities, the teachers call their pupils "latch-
key" children: many six-year olds wear house keys
around their necks and stay alone at home until their
parents come from work.
Because 50 percent of all U.S. wives are working or
actively looking for jobs, the Journal last fall published
a series of eight essays on Women at Work, reporting
from New York to California. The series states. "With
their help, the country survives $6,000 cars and
$60,000 three-bedroom bungalows. They are the reason
why schools are closing and child-care centers are jam-
med. Businesses court them . . . and in millions of
homes they have brought wholesale changes in every-
thing from eating habits to the institution of marriage.
They are the nation's working women. 41 million
strong and growing . . . the steady flow of women out
of the home and into the labor force is nothing short
of a major event, one that is altering our society in
ways still not fully understood. The changes loom as
large as the Industrial Revolution."
Forty percent of women with pre-school children
work today, compared to 14 percent in 1950. They now
bring home $250 billion a year. The two-income family-
affects the economy, homes and society. Husbands now
help with household work and child-care; men and
women now marry at older ages as "the opportunity
for work removes the economic urgency" for women to
look for a husband: the birth rate is dropping; the
divorce rate is rising (it has doubled since 1968). The
falling birth rate means a drop in the number of
schools and school jobs and a rise in the number of
day-care centers. New York City has 1.800 centers. To-
day 5 million American children under 13 spend 30 or
more hours a week in the care of someone other than
their parents or teachers, such as baby-sitters, relatives
and day-care centers. One effect of the two-income
family is that "working wives enable their husbands
the flexibility to do what they want to do with their
lives." The liberated woman is liberating her husband.
Realizing that many of our Sweet Briar students will
be looking for a job and facing problems and attitudes
different from those of older generations, we wrote to
several alumnae and members of the faculty and staff,
asking three questions: 1) Why do you, a college-edu-
cated, married woman, choose to work? 2) On princi-
ple alone, do you think women with pre-school chil-
dren should have full-time jobs outside the home? 3) If
you and your husband have social, financial or emo-
tional problems which stem from your role as a work-
ing wife, how do you resolve them? If you have no
problems, would you mind sharing with our readers
the secrets of vour success?
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Women
at
Work
We are grateful that these women were willing to take
time from their busy lives and respond to our questions.
Here is what they said:
Catherine Cox Reynolds '49. West Hartford, CT: I
work for the State of Connecticut as Staff Director of
Governor Grasso's Urban Task Force. I am working at
this paid job because it makes use of my past volunteer
experience in local government. I like the sense of ac-
complishment one gets from a full-time job after years
of juggling committees and household responsibilities.
I also like the satisfaction of earning money to help
pay the tuitions for three children. My husband likes it
too. I think it's very hard for most women to hold full-
time jobs. Finding day-care that's as good as being at
home with Mom (if Mom is a Sweet Briar alumna) is
probably almost impossible. I think Mom should stay
home as a general rule, and a part-time job would be
the ideal answer. Absence does make the heart grow
fonder. Fortunately (question 3), my husband appreci-
ates my pay check. He's more helpful about doing
things around the house since I went to work full-time.
My job has liberated us both — it has liberated him
from financial anxiety; it has liberated me from the
full responsibility of cooking and cleaning. My hus-
band cooks dinner on alternate weeks, and there are
no more complaints about how much we spend for
household service.
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The Bordens of Denver: left to right, Mercer, 9, Jane, Lewis, Arroll, 7.
Jane Merkle Borden '65, Denver: I work for the fun,
excitement and self-satisfaction my work gives me. I
have a unique job. I'm director of Public Affairs for
Larimer Square Associates. The Square is the oldest
block in Denver — dating back to 1860 — and has been
proclaimed a National Historic Preservation District.
Denver is a young, fast -growing city and I work right
in the heart of it. Downtown Denver is coming back
into its own in a big way. All the buildings in Larimer
Square have been restored and feature 32 shops and
nine excellent restaurants. I organize all the Square's
promotions, such as the May Wine and Food Festival,
Christmas Walk, Oyster Marathon and press parties,
which encourage people to come to the Square to buy
and dine and enjoy free entertainment. I also do adver-
tising for Larimer; I help merchants with anything
from window decorations to calendars-of-events. Why
do I work? After many years of being super volunteer,
I decided I wanted to expand my abilities to a greater
degree. It was a matter of elevating myself above the
mundane trivialities of daily life while not forgetting
their importance. I started at the Square as a volunteer
in PR for five months, which gave me a chance to
smooth out problems of husband, children and home
combined with work. This volunteer time also gave me
a chance to weed out the work I did not enjoy and
would not have been successful doing.
I highly recommend this idea of transition from vol-
unteer to professional. It saves you from ending up
with a job you don't like or do well. I am amazed at
how many abilities I have acquired during the last 20
years (including my four years at Sweet Briar) that just
had to find the right job-opportunity to bring them to
their fullest. For me, on-the-job training worked better
than going back to school.
Full-time work and pre-school children? I wanted to
be home with the boys when they were in their forma-
tive years. I had never worked before last year when
both boys were in school full-time. I thoroughly en-
joyed my years at home with Mercer and Arroll and
my volunteer work. I do feel that by spending that
time with the children, they became independent, se-
cure young men who can easily cope with the possible
problems created by the working-mother situation. (Ac-
tually, they are proud of their Mom.) We have had few
problems with my working. A major reason is that we
all pitch in and carry responsibilities. It has been
healthy for the boys to learn responsibility at a young
age. I am paid by the hour, thus I can schedule my
own work and be home when the boys arrive from
school. I also organize my work so that I am home on
school holidays, with a little help from sitters now and
then. My husband and children still come first at all
times.
One important fact in working is my very supportive
husband. He often takes the boys up to the mountains
for a weekend to give me a break. It really helps! We
both feel that we all spend quality time together, not
quantity time.
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Linda Frazier Keith '75, Winston-Salem: 1 am a
teacher in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth Co. school sys-
tem, teaching 10th grade biology, two classes of high-
est-level students and three classes of lowest -level stu-
dents. This is my third year teaching, having had a
year's maternity leave. I choose to work so that we as a
family can have enough income to live in a house in-
stead of an apartment, enjoy life occasionally by taking
trips or doing something special and still have a sav-
ings account. My opinion on question two: I purposely
took a full year's leave in order to be with my daughter
the first months of her life. She was ten months old
when I returned to work. I think it was a good idea to
go back at this point for two reasons: I feel better not
having to deal with a toddler's curiosity all day and
feel also that I am a much more likeable person having
made my contribution to life and society as well as to
my family in terms of income. The second reason is
that my little girl enjoys people and consequently en-
joys going to her sitter. If this had not been true. I
probably would not have gone back to work. Question
three poses a problem. My husband is a medical stu-
dent, which poses problems in itself. Socially, we are
very much involved with the couples in the school; the
wives all work; three-fourths are teachers, so I am very
much at home! Financially, we are better off with my
income although I am not the sole provider; my hus-
band is an active-duty officer in the Navy. Emotionally,
we have a different story. I am the nervous, uptight
type that compulsively worries whenever I have another
commitment; tensions rise especially when he's just as
tired as I am, yet our daughter Catherine still requires
care. Generally, we do pretty well. My husband is very
good about helping around the house. I am very lucky
in this regard. There are days, of course, when I won-
der why I am doing all of this. As a result of our
special needs, we joined an international organization
for marriage enrichment which we both feel is healthy
as well as helpful.
Beatrice P. Patt, Dean of the College, Sweet Briar:
Question 1. The answer is self-evident; I work because
I am a professional. I have yet to hear anybody ask a
male physician, lawyer, engineer or professor why he
works. Why, then, is this question asked only of a
female professional? We are not necessarily amateurs,
after all.
2. It is not a question of principle. If a woman
wishes and/or needs to work, then she should; if she
prefers not to. then she shouldn't. The fact that she
has pre-school children is irrelevant, since it must be
assumed that if she has an outside job, adequate ar-
rangements will be made for the care of her offspring.
3. Far from having problems because of my work,
our life together has been greatly enriched. There is no
"secret" to this kind of success; we respect each
other's commitments and share our interests fully. It
seems to me that it is more than time to put aside out-
worn attitudes reflected in the very questions you ask.
The presumption underlying all three questions is that
there is something unusual, not to say outre, about a
woman who works, and that her true role is to stay
home and mind the babies. A further presumption,
clearly expressed in the last question, is that a suc-
cessful marriage between two working partners is the
exception rather than the rule. Women do not have to
follow a pre-ordained pattern, but should be free to
choose whatever path is suitable. For some it is work
outside the home and for others it is not; in some cir-
cles a working mother is still an object of disapproval
and suspicion, in others it is the non-working woman
who is the object of scorn and incomprehension.
Neither attitude can be justified.
It would be interesting to ascertain whether or not
you plan an article on "Women at Home." If not, you
should consider it, so that two equally valid patterns of
life be given equal representation. No one path is in-
trinsically "better" than another provided that it is
authentic, and no one path should be looked upon as
quirky and bizarre when it is merely natural.
Nannette McBurney Crowdus '57, Boston: Why Work?
I have been working full-time for the last two years as
a realtor and I cannot imagine what I did with my life
previously. I love the challenge, the excitement, the
people and the money. The fact that I am a college
graduate did not enter into my decision to work, but
certainly my education gave me the background and
the confidence to know I could be successful. Should
mothers of young children work? Today's mothers have
the option to do as they choose, which is different from
my day. I am glad now that I did not work when my
children were small, but at the time I searched for vol-
unteer occupations to fill my days. No mother with
children still at home should work, if she has the
choice, unless her family accepts the idea totally. I
could never spend the hours or endure the interrup-
tions without the support and approval I receive from
my husband and children, who are 17 and 20. Are our
lives different? We are not as social as we used to be,
simply because I am too tried and too busy to be the
perfect hostess frequently. I appreciate the tired busi-
nessman syndrome at last, and the time we spend
together is doubly precious. Regrets? A few. I do not
read or shop or cook as I used to. My home is not al-
ways ready for guests, and there are days when I would
like to do absolutely nothing. Then the old urge to be
accomplishing something reasserts itself and I am off
and running. "Full-time" for me means seven days a
week plus evenings on the phone. I can take off any-
time I like since I am an independent broker, but cus-
tomers and clients don't allow much of that. To be
successful means long hours, hard work, good connec-
tions and "suffering fools gladly," not necessarily in
that order. And I love it.
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Randy Brown Sebren '67 currently teaches three algebra courses and
one geometry course in the Rappahannock High School in Virginia.
Randy Brown Sebren '67, Warsaw. VA: I confess that
the first few days back at work teaching high school
seemed to be a vacation after spending a summer watch-
ing my six-year old and toddler at home and at the
pool! Since 1967 I have taught algebra I, math 6, math
and science 5. 6, 7, algebra I, II, III and geometry in
four different schools. After graduation from SBC, I
chose to work because I come from a family that
believes in the work ethic. Also for three years while
my husband was in law school my job and income was
the main support of our family. I have become ac-
customed to working. Teaching is a satisfying career in
a system such as ours with few discipline problems.
The vacations are ideally suited to family life. Finan-
cially, teaching is not the most rewarding career in a
city, but in a rural community it is the best-paid job
within 45 miles. Of course I want the financial freedom
a second income allows. In answer to your question
about pre-school children: it is up to the individual's
principle. I had one child in kindergarten before the
second was born. I would not have had the physical
and emotional stamina to hold a full-time job and care
for two small children (under three). I have, I think,
one of the best child-care women for my children. I
take the toddler to her home and have since she was
six weeks old. Because I have confidence in my
children's care, I am able to concentrate on doing my
best at work. Question 3: the problems that my hus-
band and I have do not result from my working.
Judith M. Klkins, Associate Professor of Mathematics,
Sweet Briar: Question 1. I share the financial responsi-
bility for our family with my husband and am able to
provide full financial support if circumstances should
require. This independence is crucial to my way of life.
With both of us working, we have more employment
mobility and can make career decisions on the profes-
sional merits with salary only a secondary considera-
tion. I am a professional mathematician and spent
many years acquiring some expertise in the field. I am
able to make the most of this training and my abilities
by continued employment as a mathematician. My
husband, also a mathematician by training, is Manager
of Special Programs in the Systems Division of Com-
puter Sciences Corporation and works in Arlington,
Virginia.
2. The decision for women with pre-school children
to work full-time outside the home must be made on
an individual basis. Those who provide the sole finan-
cial support for the family — divorced, widowed, sepa-
rated, or with spouse unable to work — have no options.
The rest must be prepared to take over the responsibil-
ity since this is happening with increasing frequency. If
the wife shares the financial responsibility, the hus-
band should be able to share the child-care responsi-
bilities. Many families will find that the enlargement of
the husband's role beyond that of "bread-winner" is
more satisfying to children, husband and wife. I have
been employed full-time since graduating from college
and from 1969-77 with pre-school children. Child-care
during this period was always of primary concern. And
an important part of this concern was to maintain my
capability to provide full financial support for the
family at any time.
3. It is probably important to become established in
an employment area before marriage and children di-
vert your efforts, whether you are male or female! Cer-
tainly professional-technical training programs leave
little time for anything else and are best tackled when
single.
I no more "choose" to work than my husband does.
Employment for both of us is equally important to and
accepted by the family. Consequently, it is expected
that I will work professionally and there is no decision
involved. Spouses must have compatible views of their
roles in the family and these roles should be recognized
before marriage. Both spouses can successfully work
full-time provided that household and child-care re-
sponsibilities are shared.
Saravette Royster Trotter '47. Rocky Mount, NC: I
have been working full-time for four years, first as a
reporter and. for the last six months, as managing
editor and reporter for the Nashville Graphic, a semi-
weekly covering Rocky Mount and Nash County. Tak-
ing on this full-time job followed several years of part-
time work first as a dramatics and English teacher in a
local private school, then as free lance writer for the
News & Observer in Raleigh and several other publica-
tions. My motives for going to work were in the begin-
ning straight out of the book. My children were gone. I
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knew I could never build my life around the world of
the middle class matron. Except for the poor pay, my
stint as a free lance writer was the fattest of all deals:
a few weeks of concentrated work writing on a subject
of my choosing; then the freedom to play, travel or
relax until it was time to tackle the next assignment.
Had those assignments kept up, I would probably
have drifted on in this pleasant life forever. The
market, however, did dry up. I was offered a full-time
job at the Graphic, where I'd been doing two features
a week for about 18 months. After much soul-search-
ing, I accepted full-time work. The soul-searching, cen-
tered around the fact that, for the first time in my life,
I was laying myself on the line. It meant I was giving
up the freedom to produce or not produce. It meant
exposing myself to failure, to the danger of having to
acknowledge that I couldn't hack it. I had to turn
from a dilettante into a professional on however small
a scale. But I accepted, and it was the greatest thing
that ever happened to me, except for getting Jim. I did
hack it. I did measure up. I did lock horns with jour-
nalists far more knowledgeable than I and hold my
own and then some. I'm not all that good, and one day
I'll be better than I am.
Now that I've been shoved into the pool. I realize
why I stuck my toes in. Not to "have something to do"
or "to make a little extra money" (though that's great),
but to find out what I had to give and whether I had
the guts.
Question 2: this is a tough one because I think the
"principle" the young mother should address herself to
is not whether to work but whether she is putting her-
self ahead of her children at an age when they are
most vulnerable and most in need of being put first.
I've known women with young children and full-time
help spend their days playing golf, lunching at the
club, giving or going to several parties a week. It took
its toll on their children — I would call them ne-
glected — yet the mothers have never worked a day in
their lives.
I've also known mothers of young children who
worked full-time but who came home to their children,
eager to spend time with them, play with them, teach
them; the children were well-adjusted and so were the
mothers. I guess what I'm saying, up to a point, is that
the quantity of time spent with one's children is not so
important as the quality. I myself would not have had
the stamina, either physical or psychological, to have
worked when my children were still at home, much less
when they were pre-schoolers. Nor would I have wanted
to miss any of those years, so precious and fleeting.
Certainly I could not have held my present job, which
demands a great deal of my time, but it would have
had nothing to do with "principle." only with my own
temperament and physical limitations. In all honesty, I
do not think there are many women who can handle
both roles — career woman and mother of young
children — but I think it can be done, and has been
done, if both parents and the children are relatively
problem-free psychologically, and the mother-substitute
is warm and loving and consistent, that is, not always
changing.
3. The key to success for a married woman who is
working, at whatever point in her life, lies with her
husband; mine is pure gold. He not only encouraged
me, he practically pushed me out the door because he
knew it was what I wanted to do but was scared to try.
He's totally un-macho. We share the housekeeping (ex-
cept I do all the cooking); he puts up with my late
hours and never complains, perhaps because he's never
been a nine-to-five himself. (Jim's a lawyer.) He's con-
stantly bolstering my ego and appears to be proud of
me. Financially, it's a help having that extra pay
check, relatively small though it be. In fact, as infla-
tion eats away, it would be hard on us to give it up.
The number one disadvantage in my working lies
with our social life. We have never been too social a
couple, and it now is easier than ever to pull into our
own little world. We have finally had to make a con-
scious effort to entertain friends. On the other hand,
my working has given us new friendships. I've met per-
sons through my job, in all walks of life, whom I would
never have known otherwise.
In re-reading, it seems I have painted working as all
cake-and-ale, and that's not so. Let me clarify the
record. There's the tedium. I feel lonely sometimes, be-
ing separated from friends; when we were bachelors,
being married set you apart; now working (at least in
Rocky Mount) sets you apart. The night work gets aw-
fully old; the meetings get awfully boring. I miss being
at home. It boils down to a choice, a question of time
and how you use it. I've thought about quitting and
becoming a full-time housewife again. But when I
think of what I would do then, I know that for me
that's not the answer. Working has given me a self-
esteem and confidence I never had before. That's
something — plus the plain long fun — I want to hang
onto, not cut short, not just yet.
Edith D. Whiteman, Sweet Briar: Question 2: There is
no absolute answer today for women with pre-school
children and full-time jobs. It depends on personal cir-
cumstances. If an active career exists that cannot be
interrupted — performing arts or athletics — then per-
haps the husband or grandmother can be the surrogate
mother. A new career should not be started during
pre-school years. Today one can choose to have chil-
dren, and children are and should be a full-time career
during those first few precious years. There is no sub-
stitute really for a mother to create in a child a firm
foundation for discipline, character and self-confi-
dence. According to Dr. Bernard Campbell, eminent
British anthropologist, who recently spoke on our cam-
pus on "The Evolution of Intelligence and Lan-
guage" — the evolution of human behavior depends on
those first early years of a child's relationship to its
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The three children of Mary Ann Mellen Root and John: left to right,
David, 16; I ramie, 20, SBC class of 1980; Randall, 18, W & L class of
1982. Their Otterhounds, Rudyard Kipling and Clara, "are lovable,
shaggy and friendly but not too bright. Of course they may be smarter
than I think. They just don't want to do what we tell them and that
innocent 'I don't understand' expression is all an act."
mother. Dr. Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis
and chief psychiatrist at Harvard, says that to date
there are no satisfactory day-care centers.
We are put on this earth to make it a better place
for each other. When we leave this earth we are re-
membered by what we did for others — not for ourselves
and "only by giving do we receive."
There is a restlessness in the air and it is "fash-
ionable" to have a paid job. These fashionable women
may be taking a job from someone who really needs
the job for survival. There are many fulfilling oppor-
tunities that do not require a pay check. The golden
rule, the Buddhist version, is "Hurt not others in ways
that you yourself would find hurtful," and this means
your own child. As an unpaid working wife of a
college president, I, as well as my husband, have per-
sonal and institutional obligations that could lead to
emotional tension. We overcome our physical
exhaustion with a good walk or a fast game of tennis.
I find my involvement in the Sweet Briar community
rewarding and do not question it. Stress is inevitable
because of many demands and unexpected daily hap-
penings but we analyze our priorities and choose those
that are important. I feel that my husband and I are a
team and we chose to spend our lives working with
people. We have lived well, laughed and cried often,
and loved much.
Mary Ann Mellen Root '53, Wilton, CT: I work at
Talbot's, a women's clothing store out of Hingham,
Mass. They opened a new store in Ridgefield, ten min-
utes from our home, in Sept. I've been in on it since
the beginning. I also work a lot in "the back room,"
sending and receiving special orders and solving mys-
teries of where-to-find missing or desired items. I work
closely with the manager, learning all phases of the
operation and trying different ways to make our partic-
ular store more efficient and appealing. I want to learn
all this with the idea of possibly having a store of my
own some day. Why work? I like the idea of doing
something constructive. I like the sense of accomplish-
ment from doing a job well. 1 learned a lot working
with volunteer organizations; now I'm putting those
skills to work earning money, and I like it! I enjoy ac-
quiring the ability to tackle and solve problems on my
own, outside of ordinary domestic crises. What I'm do-
ing is good for my personal growth as well as good
training for the future. With the children growing up
and leaving home, I like having something solid to oc-
cupy my time. And with two children in college and
another in high school, the extra income helps. No, I
don't think women with pre-school children should
have full-time jobs unless it is absolutely necessary.
Children are really at home for so short a time. The
sense of loving and closeness is developed in the early
years. There are plenty of years ahead for full-time
outside commitment. If you have worked at a job all
day you're often too tired at night to sense the needs of
a young child or to be able to give him your full atten-
tion. Besides, looking at it selfishly, little children are
such fun! Enjoy them while you can.
I am lucky to be married to a patient, understand-
ing, low-key husband. So far, he's been very tolerant of
the things around the house that I have had to let
slide. My biggest problem seems to be keeping up with
the housework. I'm too tired at night to jump into real
cleaning and I hate to spend my whole day off with a
dustcloth and mop. I find that we entertain less — lack
of energy and time. There is also less time for physical
exercise, such as tennis or paddle. I miss this for social
as well as physical reasons, but all these problems are
minor; with a little more think-ahead planning we can
solve them.
So far nothing in the line of Big Problems seems to
have arisen from my working. If it did, I would feel no
qualms about quitting my job. I can always find an-
other one that I would like equally as well when the
crisis was over. It might take a while, but I know the
opportunity is out there. My family definitely comes
first, both now and in the future. That's the wonderful
thing about my present job as a working wife. I don't
have to depend on the income to survive. I'm doing
something challenging and enjoyable during the day
plus having the warmth and closeness of a family life A
in the evenings. It is the best of both worlds.
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The Apple is Alive and Well . . .
by Katherine Macdonald and Jennifer Crispen
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Constance M. K. Applebee, pioneer in American field hockey, is shown (above, left) with a friend in her home in Hampshire,
England. True Dow '81 (above, right) models a field hockey uniform from the early Applebee era, about 1922.
II. .11, McGlothlin '78
Do you remember: "Daffodil"? "Big Blue
Elephant"? "Do you think you are the Brooklyn
Bridge"? "Runnnn, you three-legged milking stool"?
If you do, you will have vivid, unforgettable, trembling,
loving memories of Constance M. K. Applebee, who
introduced field hockey to college women in the United
States in 1901 and was a frequent visitor to Sweet Briar
until her last visit in 1968. "The Apple" as she is affect-
ionately called by generations of hockey players is
living at her home, "The Withies." Burley near
Ringwood, Hampshire, England. She will celebrate her
birthday June 4, 1979. She will be 106.
Hockey at Sweet Briar is in its 64th season, intro-
duced here by Miss Cara Gascoigne, who now lives in
Eastborne, England. Intercollegiate hockey began about
1 920. The College became a member of the Virginia
Field Hockey Association when it was organized in
1929 with, of course, Harriet Rogers one of the founders.
Now a member of the Blue Ridge Association, Sweet
Briar hockey is flourishing under the leadership of
Assistant Professor Jennifer Crispen. one-time U. S.
player and a member of the U.S.F.H.A. Olympic
coaching staff.
Long-toed English sticks have given way to the short,
curved Indian style; inners, halves and backs to insides,
links and sweepers; the green tunics to pink shirts,
short dark green kilts and pink-and-green striped socks;
and the thrice-weekly practice's to three-mile runs,
Sunday afternoon sessions and weekend games. Sunday
afternoons and weekend games? Yes, Virginia, it is
Sweet Briar hockey — out of the doldrums of the sixties
and into the sports-minded seventies. There are cheer-
leaders, spectators and faithful faculty boosters;
there is a new spirit and a new name. The Vixens.
There are student-athletes at Sweet Briar, and they're
proud of their accomplishments, both academic and
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athletic.
It seems ages ago that the upperclass students
arrived September 7, three days early. They were back
on campus along with the tennis team for twice-daily
practice sessions before classes began. The temperature
steadied in the nineties, and the fortunate four who had
been to hockey camp gloated as the others groaned with
shortened breath and sore muscles, and we all waited
expectantly to see our new crop of freshmen. They were
all we had hoped for, ranging from 5' 1" Texan Brianna
Boswell to 5' 10" Molly Finney from Baltimore. Three
of the eleven would become varsity starters, Brianna
at left back, Molly at center back and Alice Dixon at
sweeper.
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Goal tending is both demanding and hazardous. Nancy Webb
'81 blocks a shot in Sweet Briar's 2-1 upset over Old Dominion
University of Norfolk.
The measure of the 1978 hockey season is not in
wins and losses (4-6-1) but in skills and teamwork
learned, in friendships made and in maturity gained.
We were a young team — three freshmen, four
sophomores, two juniors and two seniors — and the
promise is there of things to come. Our finest game,
fittingly, was our last against Old Dominion University,
later to become one of Virginia's two representatives
to the Region II Championships. Everything fell into
place and Sweet Briar finished with a thrilling 2-1 upset.
Our first game was September 22 against Mary Wash-
ington, a fast, experienced team, and we played well but
lost 2-0. Five days later, though, we enjoyed a 4-0
victory over rival Randolph-Macon Woman's College
In a fast-paced game against Old Dominion, Susan Rowat '81
brings the ball downfield against an O.D.I . defender.
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Sweet Briar's defense — (l.-r.) Molly Finney '82, Pam Koehler
'80 and Robin Behm '79 — rushes out on a corner in the Old
Dominion game.
in our first of two games with them. On October 2. we
played RMWC again, slept through the first half, but
aroused ourselves sufficiently in the second to win 2-0.
A hard fought 1 -0 win at Averett spoiled their home-
coming and evened our record at 2-2. We lost to
perennially tough Hollins (one of these days!) 4-0, and
then dropped two tough 1-0 games to Eastern Men-
nonite and Roanoke. We outshot both opponents, but
could not score. In a good game we tied the James
Madison University freshmen 2-2. but lost a tight
defensive contest to Lynchburg 1-0. We played well
against undefeated Virginia Tech, but they scored twice
late in the second half and won 2-0.
Green jacket-clad members of the varsity team look on as the
JV's play against Eastern Mennonite College.
October 27 and 28 was the Blue Ridge Tournament
at V.P.I, played indoors on astro-turf. Eight Sweet
Briar players were named to play for Blue Ridge at the
Southeastern Tournament held at Sweet Briar Novem-
ber 10, 11, and 12. First team honors went to forwards
True Dow '80. Marian Galleher '81, and links Robin
Behn '79, and Susan Rowat '81. Second team represen-
tatives were goalkeeper Nancy Webb '81, and backs
Brianna Boswell '82. Molly Finney '82, and Alice Dixon
'82. At the Southeast Tournament Robin was selected
to play in Ellensburg, Washington, and Sweet Briar
was once again represented at the National Tourna-
ment.
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The 1978-79 Varsity: First row: Mary Cowell '79, Carol Water-
bury '82, Libby Shackleford '81, Laurie Barnett and Christine
McFadden, both '82; second row: Marian Galleher '81, Katie
Ewald '79, Nancy Webb and Susan Rowat '81, Robin Behm
'79, Nancy Siedlarz '81; third row: Sarah Woodhouse '81,
Brianna Boswell and Peggy Thistlethwaite '82, True Dow, Pam
Koehler and Martha Carey '80, Lisa Laubach '82; fourth row:
Margaret Camblos, Carol Hawley and Molly Finney '82, Megan
Thomas '81, Alice Dixon '82; in the rear; Coach Jennifer
Crispen; missing from the picture, Jane Terrv and Henrietta
White '81.
There are a lot of memories from such a short
season: the infected blister that put True on
crutches for the Tech game, Brianna's black eye,
courtesy of O.D.U., the stitches in Mary Cowell's fore-
head, the yards of tape we wrapped around Robin,
Susan, Katie Ewald and Megan Thomas, the morning
we left Alice behind in the shower, Lisa Laubach's
creaky knee, our nomadic practice balls, the heat,
gallons of lemonade, the spirited play of the junior
varsity, the trials and tribulations of hostessing this
year's Southeast Tournament at Sweet Briar, the
panic-stricken Macdonald's staff as they changed
seventeen twenty-dollar bills at 8 a.m. the morning we
left for the tournament, and our banquet at Smitty's
Restaurant. Coach's awards for consistent performance
went to varsity players Nancy Webb and Sarah Wood-
house '81 and to junior varsity players Megan Thomas
'81 and Henrietta White '81.
We ended as we had begun, together, and looking
forward to the first game of a new season in 79! The
Apple would once again be proud of Sweet Briar hockey.
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Bon Appetit!
by Amy Campbell '80
If you are the lucky parent of a struggling Sweet
Briarite, you have probably heard more than your
share of moans and groans concerning the College's
meal service offerings (usually accompanied by pleas
for an increase in your daughter's allowance to fund
her off-campus eating habits). If you are an alumna,
you have your own happy memories of the constant
war between appetite and diet, a continuing topic of
college women's discussion. Whichever of the groups
you identify with, chances are you will be visiting The
Briar sometime in the near future and desire some-
thing a little more exciting than the routine dining hall
fare; this article then is for you. Celebrate a reunion
with old friends or take your daughter out on the town.
You both deserve it.
While the metropolis of Lynchburg might not seem
to offer much in the line of high cuisine, it has proved
over the years to have its moments. Some of the finest
of these have been spent over 3 a.m. omlettes at
Howard Johnson's (fondly Hojo's), or over a bowl of
chili at the infamous Texas Inn, but that isn't what
you're really looking for. It is true, too, that the City of
the Seven Hills boasts an outstanding array of every-
one's favorite fast-food chains, including the popular
McDonald's only five minutes from campus. Early
morning Egg McMuffin trips are becoming quite the
fashion at McDonald's on route 29 south; their Danish
are hot and the hash browns are enough to warm any
early morning soul. But if you follow the thinking of
most of the students, the chain's offerings are more of-
ten than not hardly worth the gas in your car.
For a nice dinner out it's best to head for one of the
familiar Lynchburg steakeries, of which there are
many. The best of these perhaps is that old Virginia
stand-by. Aberdeen Barns, for well-prepared beef,
cocktails and nightly entertainment in the lounge.
Phil's across the road is said to be OK, too. Another
place to go for steaks and such is Crown Sterling,
where tux-clad waiters take your order and then free
you to create your own salad from their mind-boggling
salad bar. Smaller than Aberdeen, quieter, nice.
If you're not in the mood for a steak with all the
trimmings, you might try the Sheraton's That Seafood
Place. Coastal seafare is served, and a salad bar that
rates a close second to Crown Sterling is featured. The
adjoining Captain's Table Lounge reflects the same
sea-flavored decor and it offers dancing nightly.
Across the street from Randolph-Macon Woman's
College you will be surprised and delighted by T.
C. Trotter's; their omlettes, sandwiches and steak spec-
ialties are well worth the inevitable wait (Reservations
accepted.). The popular student haunt serves as one of
the area's few nice bars and features a good selection
of imported beer.
Lynchburg offers little in the way of foreign flavor,
although either Peking Americana or King's Island
should satisfy most cases of Chinese hungries. Both of-
fer large, varied menus of home-prepared dishes and
exotic drinks with parasol fruit-pick garnishes. Ah so!
Italian food fanciers (and who isn't?) will be ecstatic
to discover Sal's Pizza so near Sweet Briar in Madison
Heights. Pasta dishes, sandwiches and the Sicilian
pizza south of New York City put this place a cut above
Pizza Hut, and the Italian-speaking waiters complete
the treat. Their anti-pasto is mucho bueno!
Nearer to the Briar is Amherst's Bavarian inn, the
Rutledge Inn, serving authenic Bavarian cuisine
along with roast beef. The Inn also offers a party-room
service and incredibly quaint guest rooms above the
restaurant.
If you're up for a picnic along the beautiful Skyline
Drive of the Blue Ridge countryside, you will find
S'Amanda's — next door to campus — ready to fill your
wine and cheese requirements. Long a favorite at Sweet
Briar, this country store has a wide variety of near
habit-forming natural goodies and handsome gift
items, too.
Emil's Deli in Lynchburg's Boonsboro Shopping
Center provides gourmet items for picnics, along with
a delightful array of cakes and pastries. Emil's also
operates a restaurant for those who'd rather eat inside
than face the elements.
And so we've set a small beginning on the offerings
of Amherst County's and Lynchburg's fine cuisine.
These student favorites have proved tried and true;
further exploration is up to the adventuresome. Bon
appetit!
From Lincoln, Nebraska, Amy Campbell '80 is a Dance Theatre/En-
glish Creative Writing Major. The editor of the Sweet Briar News,
1978-79, Amy writes for the Brambler and the Alumnae Magazine.
"I've been involved as College Board Representative for Mademoiselle
and am currently serving as Theatre Arts representative to the Cur-
riculum Committee of the College."
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the editor's
Sweet Birds of Youth
With St. Patrick's Day, April Fool's Day and
springtime's merry laughter just around the
corner, we turn the editor's room into a rumpus room.
Until now we've discussed the Metropolitan Opera, Jane
Austen, the National Book Award, John Milton. Sweet
Briar's Friends of the Library, Queen Elizabeth II, The
Armistice, St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, golf at
St. Andrews, Winnie the Pooh and other esoteric matters
dear to the heart of the editor. This time we assign the
Room to the Sweet Birds of Youth, our students.
It wasn't April First (it was November, 1978), but the
staff of The Sweet Briar News decided to publish a
parody of itself. From that issue, we reprint the leading
sports story of the year. For clarification: Perry-Camp
& Swartz teach music; Patt is College Dean; Edwards
teaches ecology; Johannson. anthropology; Savarese,
English; Langley Wood, environmental studies; Hapala,
government; Dabney, English; Elkins, math; PV Daniel
is College VP & Treasurer & Diving Coach; Barlow runs
Student Affairs; Carter is Chaplain; Garner teaches
religion; Crispen is head hockey coach; Jackson is swim
coach; Leveau teaches French; Lenz, physics; Berg, his-
tory; Yale & Hearty Whiteman is President.
A spirited but thoroughly outclassed faculty team
took on the powerful Vixen varsity in a Student-Faculty
Hockey Game, November 7. The winning goal in the
1 -0 varsity win was scored by Nancy Webb, who dribbled
the ball the length of the field, dodged four faculty
defense men and poked it in at 4:01 p.m.
Wings Jane Perry-Camp and Anne Swartz proved
a composed duo as they led the Crescendo of the faculty
attack. Also on the offense were diminutive Dean Bea
Patt, administering pass after pass in complete control
of all her faculties, and "Too Tall" Buck Edwards,
whose concentration on his wings was hampered when
a large flock of Starlings surrounded him on the
50-yard line. Supporting the attack were "missing link"
Donald Johannson and offensive specialist John
Savarese, who put body english on every shot. Scheduled
starter Langley Wood withdrew in protest when he
discovered that the center bully would take place on an
obscure but endangered species of plant life.
Defending for the faculty were body-czeching Milan
Hapala, former Seven Sister League All-Star Ross
Dabney, Judy Elkins, who plotted angles and took
calculated risks, and Peter Daniel, who will treasure
his diving saves forever. Goalkeeper Bob Barlow guarded
the gates zealously, fending off both peripheral and
parietal passes.
Faculty coach Sallie Carter warned of opposing wings,
sinners, halves and backs, but did admit that her team
was weakened when long-time starter Maxine Garner
was removed from the game by the officials. Garner
was ousted for religiously refusing to exchange her red
sneakers for regulation cleats.
Substitute at halftime was Jennifer Crispen, who
proved ineffective and was replaced immediately by
Bonnie Jackson. Jackson left the game when the rain
started, complaining of wet conditions. Her replacement
was Dominique Leveau, whose French-cut shirt and
kilt dazzled the spectators. Super sub George Lenz
theoretically defied the laws of gravity with his physical
play and nearly saved the game. Substitute left winger
Gerry Berg played the last five minutes.
President Whiteman, Yale and hearty as usual, led
the faculty athletic supporters in cheer after cheer. Mrs.
Whiteman in her usual pink and green continued her
traditional support of the Vixens.
Playing for the victorious Vixens were K. T. Ewald.
Stitches Cowell, Gabby Rowat. the Mecca Twins. True
Grit Dow, KK Behm, Tex Boswell, Rookie Finney,
D+Koehler, Diver Dixon. Spider Webb and Trunks
Thomas.
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The Guiding Lights
by Claire Dennison '80
Have you wondered how the majority of each
year's freshman class formulated their first
impressions about Sweet Briar? Part of the answer lies
with the Sweet Briar student guides and the overnight
hostesses.
Each year more than one thousand prospective
students are interviewd by our Adminission Office;
another two thousand visitors come to the campus. The
student guides are hostesses for the College, taking
guests through our on-campus facilities, answering
questions and many times having lunch or dinner with
them at one of the dining halls or at Wailes Center. All
prospective students are encouraged to spend a night
on campus with a student guide or another student who
serves as a hostess.
Each year the Admission Office appoints a chairman
of the student guides and the hostesses; the chairman
is appointed for one semester or for one year, and she
is responsible for scheduling tours and making over-
night arrangements seven days a week for visitors to
the campus.
While the chairman receives a small compensation
for her time, the guides and hostesses are volunteers.
A guide is always a hostess, but a student hostess is not
necessarily a student guide, who accepts the responsi-
bility for giving campus tours.
At the beginning of each semester, each student fills
out a schedule indicating when she is free to give tours
during the week. She is asked if she is free on weekends
and if she is willing to keep a prospective student over-
night. Those students involved in the riding program
also give tours to girls interested in SB's riding program.
Because each tour differs from the next, a guide never
know what questions she will be asked. All our guides
stress the importance of academics at Sweet Briar as
well as the student-faculty ratio of nine to one. We
also talk about the honor system, our 4-1-4 calendar,
geographic distribution and self-scheduling exams.
Most guides are eager to give as many tours as
they can during the week and on weekends. Most
of us believe that giving tours helps us, the guides, gain
poise and self-confidence in our speaking ability. All
of us are eager to see who of the prospective students
will arrive on campus as freshmen the next fall.
This year the Admission Office has been fortunate
to have seventy-five students giving tours or keeping
overnight guests. Each class is well-represented and
there are more freshmen helping us this spring semester.
Of the seventy-five who give time to the Admission
Chairman of SBC's student guides and hostesses, Claire Dennison
'80 of Peeos, Texas, is the president of the junior class, a member of
QV and a nominee for selection in the forthcoming edition of Who s
Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities.
Office, seventeen are either alumnae-daughters or have
alumnae relatives.
One other important part of the admissions program
is the role of the faculty. In a time when admission
offices around the country are beginning to expand
their recruiting procedures to include more faculty
participation. Sweet Briar already has a well-established
system of faculty association with prospective students
through personal letters and informal interviews. This
has been effective because it gives the prospective
students a good view of the faculty-student relationship
that exists at Sweet Briar. Our system of student-and-
faculty association creates a personal atmosphere or
friendship which is not always found at many of the
larger colleges but which is vital to Sweet Briar. At the
end of each year, ten guides who have been outstanding
in giving of themselves and their time are chosen as
Honor Guides; all, however, are recognized for their
time and efforts in sharing with the many prospective
students and guests a good view of what Sweet Briar
College has to offer.
The following student guides are alumnae-daughters:
ALUMNAE DAUGHTERS
Lisa Allison '81
Grandmother:
Julia Brooke '81
Mother:
Aunt:
Harriet Harrison '81
Mother:
Cousin:
Francie Root '80
Mother:
Grandmother:
Florence Rowe '80
Mother:
Great Aunt:
Sister:
Windsor Cleveland '81
Mother:
Aunt:
Aunt:
ALUMNAE RE1
Nancy Smith '82
Great Aunt:
Lee Watson '82
Sister:
Lezlee Westine '82
Sister:
Anne Callahan '81
Sister:
Sophie Crysler '81
Aunt:
Sister:
Brooks Cunningham '80 Cousin:
Cousin:
Cousin:
Cousin:
Gina Neilson '80
Cousin:
Cousin:
Florence Powell '80
Great Aunt:
Aunt:
Ashley Wilson '79
Sister:
Bridget Wray '79
Sister:
Sister:
Beth Halsted '81
Aunt:
Cousin:
1. il lias Spratt '36
Julia Olivia Craig Brooke '58
Cynthia Craig McKey '66
Sarah Swift 'S3
Sarah Kendall
Mary Ann Mellon '53
Frances Burnett '25
Anne Martin Wilson '57
Jeanette Mac Donald
Stroffregen '22
Jeanette Rowe '79
Burney Parrott '55
Marion Parrott
Betsy Parrott '53
Natalie Roberts Foster '31
Patsy Lynn Watson '74
Lynn Westine '79
Mary Callahan '80
Nancy Godwin Baldwin '57
Cannie Crysler '78
Mrs. Jack King '46
Glenn King Springer '77
Langhorne King '73
Janet Smalley '78
Melville Douglass '69
Bessie Sloss Dugins '72
Nan Powell '10
Hortense Powell '39
Nancy Wilson Tucker '75
Lisa Wray '78
Barbara Burns Wray '81
Elizabeth H. Campbell '39
Elizabeth D. Gawthrop '66
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Sweet Briar College
Pooled Income Fund
Estate^
Planning
News
Below are charts showing a five-year history of the Sweet Briar Pooled Income
Fund. At the time of writing these findings, the market has been in a slump, showing
a decrease in the value of the units. Even so, the income shows an upward growth,
indicating it is still a sound investment for those who need spendable income and
want to make a significant long-range gift to the College. What's more, you may want
to take advantage of the opportunity to get more units for your money. Don't forget,
you still get the full fair market value for appreciated securities with no capital gains
tax to pay, an immediate deduction from taxable income, quarterly payments for the
rest of your life, and a reduction of estate taxes. Where can you find a better reward
for doing a good deed?
Market Value of Total Fund
1974 75 76 77 78
$110,000
100,000
90,000
89,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
(Measure of Cumulative Contribution)
Units Held B> Donors
1974 75 76 77 78
SI 10
109
108
107
106
105
104
103
102
101
100
Value of Units
1974 75 76 77
78
Annual Income Per Unit
1975 76 77 78 (Est)
(All figures shown at end of October 31st fiscal years)
Office of Estate Planning
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, Va. 24595
The
Sixty-Eighth Reunion
May 18, 19, 20, 1979
Friday, May 18
3:00-6:00 p.m.
Registration in Wailes Center
6:00
Cocktail Party with the Faculty and Staff
7:00
Dinner
Saturday, May 19
7:15 a.m.
Bird Walk (bring your binoculars)
8:00-9:00
Breakfast
9:15-10:15
Administrative Panel on the State of the College
1%30-11:45
Panel of Professionals on Estate Planning
12:00
Class Meetings and Election of Officers
1:00
Luncheon honoring Reunion classes
2:30 on
Carnival of Information:
Admissions
Career Counselling
Student Life
Estate Planning and Tax Information
Fun and Games: tennis, swimming, fishing, golf, hiking, etc.
Bus Tours of Campus
New Memorabilia Museum — Chapel (lower level)
Tours of Sweet Briar House
3:00-5:00
Book Shop Open House
6:00
Class Picnics
Sunday, May 20
8:00-9:00
Breakfast
9:30
Chapel Service
11:00-12:15 p.m.
Alumnae College — Sweet Briar Faculty
12:30
Lunch in Sweet Briar Gardens
MR HENBy JAMES
SWEET BRIAR
VA
24595
Alumnae Magazine Summer 1979
Sweet Briar College
Datid Abrams
In times of yore, when social restrictions at colleges for women were severe, parachuting in-
to the hallowed cloisters might have achieved the legendary status accorded the world's first
panty raid or the goldfish-swallowing record. But in 1979, the celebrants at the Fourth An-
nual Folk Festival of Folk Art simply looked up from the Quad and welcomed several mem-
bers of the Hampden-Sydney Skydiving Gub who were dropping in for a beer and a little
music. The Folk Festival was originated at Sweet Briar by Lisa Camille Hite '79 and also at-
tracts many students on foot from surrounding colleges.
Volume 49, Number 4, Summer 1979
Editor: Catharine Fitzgerald Booker '47
Managing Editor: Ann Morrison Reams '42
Class Notes Editor: Carolyn Bates
Alumnae Magazine • Summer 1979
2 An Ecologist Looks (Again) at
Sweet Briar's Setting
by Ernest P. Edwards
7 The Sound of Music, 1906 - 1979
by Lucile Umbreit
8 Miss Meta Goes A-Walking
Edited by Katherine Macdonald
12 "deare little Begill . . ."
by Cathy Callelo '79
16 Letters
17 Briar Patches
24 Profiles: Estelle Sinclaire Farrar '40
34 Alumnae Notices
36 Alumnae in the News
38 Going . . . Going . . . Gone Back to
College
by Ann Marshall Whitley '47
42 Career Planning
by Carter Hunter Hopkins '68
46 The Editor' s Room
48 Speaking of Books
by Eugenie W. Carr '68
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine (ISSX 0039-7342). Issued
four times yearly; fall, winter, spring and summer by Sweet Briar
College. Second class postage paid at Sweet Briar. Virginia 24595.
Telephone (804) 381-5513. Printed by J. P. Bell, Lynchburg. VA
Send form 3579 to Sweet Briar College, Box E, Sweet Briar. VA
24595.
COVER: Appropriately for the summer time, this issue is unques-
tionable outdoors?, as a perusal of the articles on pages two, eight,
twelve and 46 will disclose. Vagrant thoughts of summer, Sweet Briar
Lake and warmth flitted through our mind as we viewed this print, Rip-
ples, which was one of a dozen or so in a senior art show by Wendy
Igleheart '79. At the time her show was hanging in Benedict Gallery,
the weather outside was most unsummerlike and her vision was so
welcome a change that we thought it would make a nice summer cover.
An Ecologist Looks (Again) at
Sweet Briar's Setting
by Ernest P. Edwards
The Sweet Briar student, going from European
Civilization in Benedict to the Refectory for
lunch, to Guion Science Building for an afternoon lab
in Biology, encounters experiences comparable to those
of hundreds of thousands of other college students
across the country. When the same student goes from
the laboratory into a mature hardwood forest in less
than a minute, her experience becomes almost unique
among American colleges and universities. Less than
200 feet from the west entrance to the Science Building
lies a 12-acre tract of forest known as the Nature Cen-
ter, perhaps once a woodlot for the Fletchers and the
Williamses, but now preserved (in 1966) as a sanctuary
for studies of ecology.
The tract is characterized by tremendous white oak
and tulip poplar trees with many hickories and black
gum, red maple, and an understory of dogwood.
Woodland streams, one rising from a spring in the
west Dell, run along each side, just inside the forest.
An important feature of this sanctuary is that it slopes
down to the shores of a small artificial lake, forming a
valuable additional habitat for study, a place where the
belted kingfisher perches on dead branches to watch
for small fish, where a muskrat swims in the shallows
of a small cove.
Students in Ecology, Field Natural History, Orni-
thology, and General Biology have learned much about
this forest. They know that temperature tracing taken
in late spring or early autumn swings smoothly from
an afternoon high to a pre-dawn low, while in mid-win-
ter the line has a saw-toothed appearance as the re-
cording thermometer is exposed to intermittent sun-
light and shadow from the scattered tree-trunks, once
the solid canopy of summer-time foliage has gone. The
cool, moist banks of the woodland streams are covered
with ferns, more on the shaded banks than on the
sides which receive a little sun from time to time. Even
a small hummock in the forest supports some ferns on
the north-facing side but none on the slightly drier
south-facing side a couple of feet away. Extrapolating
from their observations here the students from a pic-
ture of the primeval forest which once covered all of
Sweet Briar's acres. On the drier, rounded ridges and
In this air view taken above point "A" in the sketch map opposite, your
eye is being led from the roof of Manson westward over the fly gallery of
Babcock Theatre and beyond to Paul Mountain. This is a fairly typical
visual slice of Sweet Briar's diverse landscape of nearly 3300 acres and
contains several of the features mentioned in Dr. Edwards 1 article.
KEY TO SITES
1 — Carry Nature Sanctuary Out-
door Laboratory
2 — Nature Center
3 — Williams Ecological Studies
Preserve
4— Ecology Field
5— Big Oaks Woodland; West-
chester Oak
6 — Princess Pine Preserve
7 — White-crowned sparrow
Hedgerow
8 — Scenic stream and trail
LEGEND
V-
stream
property border
!"- t C^jVi wood area
==r natural and ecological study areas
SKETCH MAP
OF THE
CAMPUS PROPER
(ONE INCH = 0.5 MILE)
gentle slopes there were large trees of several
species — white oak, red oak, chestnut (now gone except
many small sprouts), tulip poplar, black gum, mocker-
nut hickory, shagbark hickory, and pignut hickory. In
moist ravines and on cool, shaded slopes the American
beech, red maple, and perhaps a few Canada hemlock
and cucumber trees thrived. Beneath the forest crown
many sourwood trees, dogwood, musclewood, service-
berry, and other small trees occurred, along with nu-
merous shrubs such as mountain laurel and wild aza-
lea and many small terrestrial orchids, ferns, and other
herbaceous plants.
The various plants of the community, the students
have learned, were functionally related to each other
and to the animals of the forest. The entire forest
ecosystem was sustained by a steady influx of energy
from the sun, which powered all of the life processes of
the ecosystem and maintained a balance with the con-
stant outflow of energy dissipated in these processes.
Materials such as water, carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitro-
gen, and various other minerals were either recycled
within the forest or were imported in sufficient quanti-
ties to balance the amounts which left the forest. The
samples of mature forest which remain on the Sweet
Briar property now serve as living laboratories or living
libraries or living data banks for study of natural pro-
cesses and for retrieval of information.
Reflecting this particular approach to the study of
ecology, the sanctuary which most closely
resembles the primeval forest is called Carry Nature
Sanctuary Outdoor Laboratory. This sanctuary was
established by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Carry, parents of
Peggy Carry Durland '35, in memory of their son
Charles William Carry. After a ten-acre addition in the
late sixties, it now encompasses about 45 acres located
mostly on the south side of the main entrance road
and was called ". . . the best white oak community
seen in the Piedmont" by Dr. A. E. Radford. Professor
of Botany at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, Dr. Radford has studied dozens of forests in the
southeast United States. The dominant trees are the
white oak, tulip poplar, mockernut hickory, pignut
hickory, black gum and red oak. Dogwood is abundant
here and there are extensive groves of umbrella trees (a
relative of the magnolia) and muclewood, and scat-
tered serviceberry and ironwood trees. Surprisingly,
Calhv Harold '79
u. A-.
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Ecology Field (above) was the site of a recent honors project by Cathy Harold '79, who
coordinated her Biology major with Environmental Studies. The photographs (right
and clockwise on page five) illustrate, respectively, her use of "live" traps; one of
several measurements she made of each captured rodent, this of the tail length of a
white-footed mouse; emptying the trap into a weighing bag; weighing; and a portrait
of the "large" meadow vole.
shrubs are not abundant, but there is a great diversity
of herbaceous flowering plants including nine of Sweet
Briar's fourteen species of native orchids. The big,
wide-ranging pileated woodpecker nests here, along
with the wood thrush, the wood pewee, the red-eyed
vireo and the acadian flycatcher.
A block of this sanctuary has been carefully surveyed
and mapped along with an equal block in the unpro-
tected woodland across the entrance road, known in-
formally as the Duberg study area, and in a significant
portion of this area the location, size, and species of
every tree above sapling size has been charted. Student
research has enabled us to superimpose on our charts
the location of each pair of nesting wood thrushes,
wood pewees and other common nesting birds, and to
show for example that the scarlet tanager, which may
once have only migrated through these forests is now a
fairly common nesting bird here. Deer seek refuge here
when hunting pressure off the property increases in
late fall and winter, along with opossums, chipmunks,
squirrels, skunks, and raccoons (which have been ob-
served digging up yellowjacket nests to get the larvae
and getting stung in the process).
Another sanctuary about 15 acres in extent has
been created from an area described but not named in
the 1966 article. The Big Oaks Woodland was named
for the very large chestnut oak and red oak trees which
are protected there. The name became even more ap-
propriate in the early seventies when a three-acre par-
cel of grazed woodland adjacent, and including the
largest white oak tree on the Sweet Briar property, was
fenced off from the pasture and added to the Big Oaks
Woodland. The tremendous Westchester Oak was thus
protected from the sharp hooves of the heifers, and the
surrounding ground is quickly being converted from an
eroded, mineral soil to a rich, forest soil which can
hold water readily and provide a home for many forest
invertebrates. The big oaks are complemented by a
fine grove of beeches on a rocky hillside sloping down
toward the stream which flows eventually into Sweet
Briar Lake. Saprophytic plants known as beech drops
are numerous here, along with more conventional herbs
such as the fire pink and white snakeroot, and an oc-
casional rare adder's mouth orchid.
Let AppkgaU "79
Recognizing the need to protect Sweet Briar's
source of drinking water the College has desig-
nated a 75-to 100-foot strip of land on each side of
Sweet Briar Lake's longest inlet stream as a scenic
stream preserve, excepting only a short portion which
runs through open pastureland. The lush vegetation
which is now growing in the newly-protected areas will
prevent excessive run-off and erosion, reduce evapora-
tion, protect the stream banks and help to store up
ground water which can flow out into the lake during
dry times and generally improve the quality and relia-
bility of the water supply.
An integral part of the water quality protection sys-
tem is a sanctuary established in 1939, a 35-acre tract
which was formerly a working pasture, now known var-
iously as Ecology Field, water quality field, or field
number four. Since this pasture was closed to cattle
and mowing was prohibited nearly ten years ago, it has
developed into a mixed brushland-grassland teeming
with wildlife. The successional changes which take
place inexorably when one frees an area from distur-
bance are being closely followed by means of frequent
photographs, frequent vegetational studies, and cen-
suses of birds and small mammals. Here students can
see clear evidence of what they might otherwise only
learn from textbooks: that the field is going through a
predictable series of changes, so that in a few years'
time it will no longer be appropriately termed Ecology
Field or any other kind of field.
For the moment, however, the most noteworthy stu-
dent biology project of this year shows that Ecology
Field is still appropriate. Catherine Harold '79, a ma-
jor in Biology coordinated with Environmental Studies
and an honors candidate, studying that area and com-
paring it with the Nature Center forest by extensive
live-trapping and release of small mammals, has found
the eastern harvest mouse and the field vole to be com-
mon in Ecology Field, along with some white-footed
mice, while in the Nature Center only the white-footed
mouse occurs in any numbers. In the course of this
comparative study to determine numbers of the dif-
ferent species of mice in the two habitats, she has lear-
ned that the tiny harvest mouse has a much larger
home range than the big field vole which may range as
little as 20 to 30 feet in any direction. A single harvest
mouse has appeared in traps as much as 200 to 250
feet apart.
N«nc? BlackwtU '74
Most promising of all of the sanctuaries, new or
old, is the Williams Ecological Studies Preserve,
a 250-acre tract of land with a wide variety of habitats.
Situated along both sides of Williams Creek and ex-
tending southward and southeastward from there, this
sanctuary encompasses stream-bottom shrubland,
stream-bottom forest, north-facing slopes and steep-
sided, deep ravines covered with beech and some very
tall, straight hickories; dry uplands and gentle south-
facing slopes with Spanish oak, some red oak, much
chestnut oak and tracts of successional scrub pine
woodland.
Much of the value of this sanctuary lies in its large
size (many ecologists now believe that, other things be-
ing equal, a 250-acre tract of undisturbed forest will
show more diversity and harbor more rare species than
three 80-acre tracts of similar forest) and the fact
that it forms a corridor of forest connecting the wood-
ed areas of the campus proper with the forests of Ken-
tucky Ridge, the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills, and
the Blue Ridge Mountains themselves. The ruffed
grouse and wild turkey which turn up occasionally in
the Carry Nature Sanctuary Outdoor Laboratory or
nearby wooded areas have undoubtedly moved into the
Williams Ecological Studies Preserve from the hills and
mountains to the west, have made their homes in the
Preserve and then have ranged through the adjacent
woods to within a stone's throw of College buildings.
In the July 1966 issue of the Alumnae Magazine, Professor Edwards,
shown above as he led a Reunion birdwalk in 1977, published the first
version of the present article. A re-examination of the Sweet Briar
property twelve years later reveals many changes which are described in
detail in the article. Dr. Edwards is the son of the late Preston H. Ed-
wards, who taught physics at Sweet Briar for many years. Having grown
up on the campus, it was natural that after earning an undergraduate
degree at Virginia and a masters and doctorate at Cornell (under the
distinguished ornithologist A. A. Allen) he would return to Sweet Briar
where he now occupies the Duberg chair in ecology. The Dorys Mc-
Connell Duberg Professorship was endowed by Mr. and Mrs. John
Duberg with a gift of a quarter of a million dollars.
Portions of this sanctuary adjoin the Scenic Stream
Preserve and extend protection of the Lake's inlet
stream to the lake itself and then protect the west and
north shores of the lake to the dam. Large white oaks
are present in portions of this forest also and the syca-
more is common along the stream which flows from
Sweet Briar Lake to join Williams Creek. Among the
low, ground plants are two orchids not mentioned pre-
viously, the pink ladyslipper and the crested coralroot,
as well as pipsissewa, running cedar, wild ginger and
many kinds of ferns.
The establishment of these sanctuaries gives
promise of ever greater rewards for students and
faculty as the years go by, with each year's research ef-
forts adding to an increasing body of knowledge and
providing clearer insights into the natural processes in
our environment.
The Sound of Music, 1906 — 1979
by Lucile Umbreit
The late Geza Anda was already a celebrated artist
in European concert halls when he made his first
public appearances in America, and his first and only
recital at an American college or university took place
at Sweet Briar in 1954. Musicians of the calibre of Geza
Anda are what one has come to expect at SBC on the
Artists' Recital series. It's remarkable that Sweet Briar
has been able to offer such quality since all the concerts
have always been free to the public. We have had hun-
dreds of concerts over the years, and we offer only a
sampling here.
Pianists in the earliest years included Ernest Hutche-
son (1909). Wilhelm Backaus (school year 1913-1914).
John Powell and Ossip Gabrilowitsch in the 20's. After
them came Harold Bauer, Bruce Simmonds, Dame Myra
Hess, Harold Samuel and Dalies Frantz, all during the
30's; Simonds, Hess and Bauer each gave two recitals
here.
In the 40's we heard Rosalyn Tureck, Andor Foldes,
Ania Dorfman, Leo Smit and Marjorie Mitchell. The
next decade brought Hortense Monath, Mieczslaw
Horzowski, Vera Franceschi and Gunnar Johansen. who
gave two concerts at SBC. The more recent generation
of students have heard Geza Anda (twice), Robert
Goldsand, Philippe Entremount, Claude Frank, Joerg
Demus, Jorge Bolet, John Covelli, the last six pianists
coming in the 60's. During the 1970's we heard Alfred
Brendel (twice), Vladimir Viardo, Lee Luvisi, Edward
Kilenyi and in February this year, James Tocco.
Among the solo violinists were David Mannes (1919).
Frank Kneisel, Alexander Schneider C46), Helen Kwal-
wasser and Frederick Neumann. Cello soloists were
Hans Kindler, Dimitry Markevitch and Aldo Parisot.
In the earlier years — the twenties — the singers in-
cluded Myrna Sharlow (three recitals). Carolina Lazzari,
Lucile Barrow Turner ' 1 7 (three recitals), and in the
early 30's we heard Elizabeth Schumann and Lotte
Lehmann. Then came Ernest Wolff, William Steven,
Maria Kurenko, Leontyne Price (1950), Charlotte
Reinke, Leslie Chabay, Helen Boatwright, Phyllis Curtin
C54-'55), Florence Vickland, Adele Addison, Maureen
Forrester C63-'64), Thomas Paul, Pilar Lorengar and
Phyllis Bryn Julson.
Marcel Grandjany was here for a harp recital; Suz-
anne Bloch, a lute recital; Fernando Valenti, harpsi-
chord; Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute; Konrad Ragossnig,
lute and guitar; this group of musicians came in the
60's and 70's.
Organ recitals were given by Fenner Douglas, Marie-
Claire Alain C68-'69), William Watkins, James Darling,
Donald Hinkle, Suzanne Kidd, Andre Marchal, Homer
Wickline, Rene Saorgin, James Wilson and Gerre Han-
cock (April '78). Guitarists include Rey de la Torre in
1966, Oscar Ghilia in '74 and Sharon Isben in '78.
Chamber music has been a significant part of almost
every season, from the Schubert String Quartet of Boston
(four concerts during 1906, '07, '08 and 1912)tothe
London String Quartet and the Pro Arte in the 1920's.
Other string quartets that came were the Roth (four
times), the Curtis (twice), the Stradivarius, the Coolidge,
the Hungarian, the Quartetto Italiano (four concerts),
the Cadek and the Cleveland. We also heard the N.Y.
Woodwind Quintet (twice), the N.Y. Brass Quintet, the
Dorian Woodwind Quintet and the Festival Winds dur-
ing the years from 1954 to 1972.
When the Quartetto Italiano arrived at the RR sta-
tion (three hours late) for a concert one night in
1954, 1 met them. They were not at all upset when I said
they were arriving in the midst of Hurricane Hazel and
that the road to the College was blocked by fallen trees
and that we would travel via the diary road. There were
no lights. While they dressed for the concert I went to
Manson, which was filled to capacity, all the people hav-
ing waited in complete darkness since 7:30! I found four
candles for the stage. The amused artists needed no
light; they knew their whole repertory by memory!
Orchestral concerts have always been the most popular
of the series. The National Symphony came to SBC in
'36-'37, shortly after it was founded, and performed
here for over twenty-five seasons, sometimes twice in the
same year, mainly under the direction of Howard
Mitchell. We also heard the Richmond Symphony and
the Esterhazy Orchestra during the 60's.
Among the smaller orchestras have been the Boston
Sinfonietta (four concerts in the 30's), the Netherland
Chamber Symphony, the Richmond Chamber Symphony
(in the 60's), the Cologne Chamber Orchestra (twice), the
Aeolian Chamber Players, the Oberlin Baroque En-
semble in the 70's, and in March of 1979 we heard the
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, which was co-sponsored
by the Sue Reid Slaughter Fund.
We are proud of our series of recitals and concerts
and expect to continue to provide — at no cost to the
public — the high quality of music established at Sweet
Briar in 1906 with a program by Boston's Schubert A
String Quartet. »
Miss Meta Goes A-Walking . . .
Edited by Katherine Macdonald
Members of the Athletic Association put finishing touches on the Outing Cabin in
1938 in preparation for a kitchen shower and housewarming that was held on May
31st. The remaining photographs in the article tell the story of how the students of
1937-38 participated in the building process. We regret that we do not know who
took which photographs, all of which were selected from Helen Davis' scrapbook.
Alumnae of the 1935-1939 era. I believe, might en-
joy excerpts from Helen Davis's Cabin Scrapbook.
Helen, who taught physical education at SBC from 1935-
39, went to Cape Cod each spring to teach campcraft
and I was one of her students. Helen was at the AAHPER
Convention the year I had an interview with Harriet
Rogers. I accepted the Sweet Briar job without even
seeing the college; every time I saw Helen after that con-
vention and interview, she said, "Have you decided to go
to Sweet Briar?" That was 29 years ago. Helen — now
Mrs. Robert von Bernuth, North Conway, NH — says in
her scrapbook:
The members of the 1935-36 Athletic Association con-
sidered building a cabin. Katie Niles, AA president,
talked to Miss Glass. They decided that an interesting
building site must be found. Miss Meta walked over
open, rolling meadows in the hot sun, through wood-
land places to a knoll leading to the top of the hill which
the natives called Little Paul's Mountain. Miss Meta
and Miss Davis skirted high blackberry bushes to ar-
rive at the "beauty seat" tree decked out with a calico
bow to mark the site for the cabin. It would take several
8
Helen Davis (upper left) continued thoughout the cabin's construction to maintain
close personal interest in the project, starting with the clearing and excavation of
the site by mule teams in March (upper right). The lower left photo shows how the
hand-hewn logs were fitted to make the living room sidewall (April 14). An old-
fashioned crosscut saw was used to shape logs for the gables (lower right).
years of work but would afford years of pleasure. (That it
does. ) That day in March 1937 was a perfect day. The
sky was blue, the mountains were clearly seen through
the trees.
The Cabin Planning Committee for that year was
headed by AA President "Monkey" Paris and
"Shanghai" Gregory, head of hiking. Old-fashioned
log-and-mortar style seemed most fitting to be built of
Sweet Briar pines. Mr. Dinwiddie, the superintendent
of the farm, gave good advice — such as the father of a
family would give — just at the time it was always needed.
Mr. Dinwiddie got a man in from the country to hew
the logs (for 1937 people no longer had a need for such
an art). Well, this old man came down for a hewin'; not
one, but three types of hewin' can be found.
In 1937-38 the cabin was built. The Cabin Committee
was headed by Moselle Worsley, president, and the
two heads of hiking: Ronnie Mann and Lois Fernle'y. The
farm men and the faithful mules all worked to clear the
forest road. The cornerstone was laid during Easter
vacation in 1938.
The half-log mantle over the fireplace is from a cedar
which grew near Monument Hill. The wood is unusual
because the heartwood in this tree is not ordinarily as
Helen Davis and Mr. Watts, the Amherst contractor, hold a rooftop conference in late April luDper
left), while Mar; Judd '39 (Mrs. M. M. Patton) and Dusty Rhodes '39 (Mrs. William M. Salmon) help
place stones on the chimneytop (upper right). At lower left Dusty is carrying a bucket of cement
through the bunkroom en route to the chimney. The lower right picture shows how the cabin looked on
April 26th: The exterior framing was finished and the walls were ready for chinking with mortar. On
May 23rd the contractors departed, leaving the students to complete the finish work.
large in proportion. The girls finished and waxed it. Iron
pots, kettle and lantern hooks came from the old Sweet
Briar camp on Bear Mountain. Every hook and board
was given a second coat of creosote, as was each student-
painter. So the cabin was built.
A house warming on May 31 in the form of a kitchen
shower officially opened the cabin. The Sweet Briar News
predicted that it would a unique feature in the life of
the College. The class of 1940 donated money ($50!) for
♦he kitchen stove, andirons and firescreen.
Helen Davis wrote in her scrapbook, "To all Sweet
Briar people who may enjoy the cabin in the future." To
all the workers — the alumnae who built the cabin — be
assured that the cabin is still very much a part of Sweet
Briar. It has been possible in recent years to add a camp-
ing and outing course in the offerings of the physical
education department. The cabin, the Sweet Briar acre:
and the Appalachian Trail all provide a laboratory for
the course. One of my students, Ellen Gement '80,
daughter of Martha Mansfield Clement '48, was a mem-
ber of the course this past fall. She wrote:
10
The camping and outing course was a lovely intro-
duction to the various trails which run throughout
Sweet Briar's campus. Using a combination of classes
dealing with safe camping procedure and those spent
walking around the outskirts of the main campus, the
hiking class was a good preparation for what could be
expected on an actual hiking trip. With a group that
ranged from beginners to slightly-experienced campers,
the knowledge obtained was mainly by learning from
our many mistakes!
The class that dealt with proper wood cutting and safe
fire-building left some members vowing never to depend
on themselves to use firewood properly. Out of the en-
tire class, not one person could start her fire by using
only one match; because of this, we were later told, we
would have perished in the wilderness.
We slowly acquired the skill of cooking with an alumi-
num covered box and pieces of charcoal, and although
our first results were partially raw, we ate them anyway.
Setting up tents and learning to tie various kinds of knots
were skills which came to us more easily, even though
our first tents did blow down within a short period of
stress. At least we could put up a good tent the second
time.
The most unforgettable and exhausting experience
was the hike up to the outing cabin to spend the night.
Laden with blankets, clothes, food, water, sleeping bags
and school books, we thought we would never arrive at
the cabin without leaving half the gear behind. Some-
how we struggled up there with everything in one piece,
and though we came back rather tired, dirty and sore
we had learned that we could survive if we had to.
At upper left, Man Judd clings precariously to a ladder while
she applies a final coat of creosote. At upper right, students
close the Outing Cabin on the last Sunday of the 1937-38
school year, a year of extraordinary accomplishment for the
Athletic Association, Helen Davis, the local workmen and
members of the Sweet Briar staff who gave assistance to the
project. Inside (below), the kitchen stove, gift of the class of
'40, and some of the pots and pans which resulted from the
kitchen shower, wait through the summer for the beginning of
the first of many full years of Outing Cabin enjoyment by
generations of Sweet Briar students.
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"deare little Begill . . .
99
by Cathy Calello 79
A caravan of cars headed by a blue Volvo with a
trailer pulls over to the side of the road and a dozen
hardy enthusiasts pour out of their cars, most of them
bundled up in heavy green twill coats and khaki pants.
One of us opens the doors of the trailer and six-couple
tri-colored hounds come tumbling out, running down the
road crowding the huntsman for biscuits and pats and
flanked by three girls wearing hard hats and carrying
whips. These three dart anxiously around making sure
that this antsy bunch of hounds move down the road as
a pack and that none decide to bolt off of their own.
They come to a large field where the grass is calf-high
and there turn in. A whipper-in looks up in time to see
something pick its head up from tufts of grass, then dart
quickly in a brown blur down the path. She "tally-ho's";
the huntsman blows three staccato blasts on his horn;
one hound gives a high-pitched cry and another hound
joins her with a deeper, more rhythmic voice. Soon the
whole pack is off like lightning, in full cry. They are low
towards a stream where the scenting is good, and even
puppies are nosing frantic and reeling in this scent. All
at once they are over the stream and filling up another
wood with their cries. The huntsman, whips and fol-
lowers are leaping over the stream, then scrambling over
barbed-wire fences. For the beagling enthusiast this is
all.
They care nothing for a kill, but only for the find-and-
chase which takes them faster and with more agility and
cunning than they had imagined possible. They take
great pleasure in listening to the hounds, in being able
to pick out individual hound voices from these loud and
tangled cries, in knowing which one started the line and
in deciding which hound is more likely right when they
are off in opposite directions. It is also a thrill to see a
POINT OF HOCK
REAR PASTERN
HIND FOOT or PA*
The ideal structure of a beagle,
as shown in this drawing from
Dogsteps by Rachel Page Elloii,
is the form in the minds of
bench show judges as they look
at competitors. More to the
point, it is this conformation
which enables the beagle to per-
form as it does in the field.
HINDQUARTERS
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Cathy Calello '79 of Dover, Massachusetts, studied at Exeter last year
where she did beagle with some of the beagle packs at Oxford Uni-
versity. For the last three years she has been a member of the Chilly-
brook staff. Cathy is majoring in English and spends much of her free
time writing poetry.
puppy that was previously intrigued only with butter-
flies and fluttering leaves suddenly realize what this sport
is all about.
The sport, of course, is beagling: finding and chasing
a rabbit with a pack of small hounds called beagles.
Not to be confused with fox hunting, beagling is done
on foot; it requires no horses or equipment, only a good
pair of sneakers in the spring and fall and waterproof
boots in winter months. The advantage of being on foot
is that you can watch the hounds "work out a line,"
which means to unravel the scent-marked path of the
rabbit. Rabbits usually run in large sweeping circles,
trying to lose the hounds by subtle turns and shifts.
When the hounds lose the scent they will "check," that
is, they sweep in concentric circles and zig-zag forma-
tions around the place where they lost the rabbit. The
huntsman guesses where the rabbit might be at this
moment, perhaps hiding in a bramble covert or wood
pile, and the huntsman tries to guide the pack in this
direction with the assistance of whipper-ins, who do carry
whips but more often use a growling tone, or perhaps a
crack of the whip rather than the whip itself, to keep the
hounds within proper bounds.
When the rabbit tires of the chase he will "go to
ground" into a small hole. Then the beagles should
"mark" the place where he has gone in by poking their
noses into the hole and by trying to dig him out; at this
point the huntsman blows a long wavering note on the
horn, then collects them all and heads for another co-
vert. It is considered a job well done to put a rabbit to
ground. The beauty of the sport is in the chase, watch-
ing the frantically feathering tails work out the line,
listening to their voices ring out and simply enjoying
an afternoon in the country.
The Sweet Briar tradition ot or-
ganized hunting with hounds in
Amherst County dates back to
the 1920's when Wilmer C.
Blackwell hunted his fox-
hounds. This is a 1952 photo-
graph of the Sweet Briar fox-
hounds, hunted, trained and
fed by students.
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Young entry: Puppy "Chillybrook
Bean Sprout," who is expected to
take her place in the pack by 1981.
She is held by Lee Lee Black '82.
Hare hunting is an ancient sport, first described in
the 4th century B.C. by Xenophon. Beagle-
type hounds were probably present in England before
the Roman invasion. William the Conqueror brought
to Great Britain a breed of white hounds called Talbots,
which are thought to be the ancestors of foxhounds and
beagles. Beagles were mentioned in King Arthur stories
as well as in the poem, "Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight," but by the name "brach." Beagles have been
long-time favorites among English kings and queens.
Henry VIII made special provisions for keeping these
small hunting hounds, including a covered cart for their
transportation. Queen Elizabeth I took a particular
liking to the "pocket beagle," a miniature beagle also
referred to as "Glove or singing beagles" because of
their lovely voices. King James, another devoted sup-
porter of the breed, is said to have referred to himself as
his beagles' "dear dadde," and have flattered his Queen
by calling her his "deare little Beagill." The poet William
Somerville, who has been described as "poet of the
chase," writes well and with familiarity with the breed:
On shoulders clean, upright and firm he stands;
His round cat foot, straight hams, and wide spread
thighs,
And his low dropping chest, confess his speed.
His strength, his wind; or on the steepy hill,
Or far extended plain; in every part
So well proportioned that the nicer skill
Of Phidias himself can't blame thy choice.
Of such compose thy pack.
Today the breeding and hunt country of hunting
beagles is watched over by the National Beagle Club.
Amherst County is the county appointed to the Chilly-
brook Beagles by the National Beagle Club. The Chilly-
brook Beagles are a young pack, recognized in 1975.
They are hunted by Paul Cronin, Professor of Physical
Education, and assisted by students, faculty and com-
munity "whippers-in." Chillybrook hunts on lovely farms
in the area, including the Girlings' Speed the Plough,
the Daniels' McLivian, Cherry Hill, Hopemont and the
Pettyjohns' Green Hill, as well as around the Sweet Briar
campus. The hunting season begins in October and
Hounds "packed up" and "roading
to cover." Left to right, Hon. Whip-
pers-in Pam Kobrock '80, Lee Lee
Black '82, Paul Cronin, M.B., Ann
Kelly '82 and Keedie Grones '76.
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"Chillybrook Fun," champion on
the bench at the National Beagle
Club's Fall trials, 1978. She is a
foundation bitch of the Chillybrook
Beagles. Both sides of her breeding
line have many American Kennel
Club champions.
continues to mid-March. Out of season we "road" the
hounds; that is, we take them on long walks bringing
along puppies and teaching them how to "pack" in a
controlled group around the huntsman.
Twice a year the National Beagle Trials are held in
Aldie, VA. This is a unique opportunity to learn a great
deal about the sport, for some of the best packs in the
country come to these trials, including Ardrossen, PA;
Nantucket-Treweryn, who hunt on Nantucket in the
summer and near Middleburg the rest of the season; Sir
Sister from Massachusetts; Old Chatham, NY; Fox
Valley from Bedford County and Waldingfield from
Charlottesville, the country's oldest pack.
The objective of these trials is to have a pack that
hunts well together as a team. This requires not only
individual hounds with talent, good noses, clean and
efficient movement and obedience to the huntsman's
commands, but hounds which will "honor" one another,
respond to one another's "finds" and will not become so
over-anxious that they try to beat one another to the
scent. Hounds which are too competitive, as well as those
not enthusiastic enough, must be culled from the pack.
The huntsman generally has a certain type of hound in
mind and he gears his breeding program towards pro-
ducing this type of hound. He will try to breed a pack
which will complement one another in work and voice
and be uniform in type and color. The Chillybrook
Beagles combine the best of hunting stock and show
breeding.
The bench breeding accounts for the pack's good
looks, open dress and great speed, because movement is
a result of good conformation. This past fall at Aldie,
Chillybrook's three-couple pack put in their best per-
formance to date, bringing home a second place. They
were second to the top pack in the country, Nantucket-
Treweryn. On the bench Chillybrook has had an unusual
national record by winning the National Beagle Club
Challenge Cup in 1976, 1977 and 1978 at the Bryn Mawr
Hound Show as well as the Turnbull Cup in '76 and '78;
the Buchran Plate in '76, '77 and '78 and the John C.
Barker Memorial Challenge Plate for the Grand Champ-
ion Beagle at the Bryn Mawr Hound Show in 1976 with
"Chillybrook Chuckles" and in 1978 with "Chillybrook g
Han Solo." T
Moving to a "Tally-Ho!" Left to ■
right, Paul Cronin, M.B., Hon. I
Whippers-in Ann Kelly '82 and
Keedie Grones '76. >
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An Alumna Visits China
To the Editor:
A visit to China is an electrifying ex-
perience, and for an American is a consider-
able cultural shock. Almost everything is com-
pletely different from the West — the food, the
language (one can read nothing except an oc-
casional numeral), the aspect of the people
and the architecture. We were at first un-
certain as to how we would be received by the
people, but soon discovered that they were
friendly and apparently devoid of complexes.
Their long history of highly developed
civilization has given them an assurance and
an openness which seem to be lacking in the
Soviet Union. They were curious about
Westerners, and in public buildings and on
the street would surround us and stare at us
with smiling faces.
Our tourist group was composed mainly of
British doctors with the addition of an Irish
Anglican bishop, a newspaper man and our-
selves. We found them interesting and became
good friends with all of them. As medicine was
the principal field of interest, we visited a good
many hospitals and saw acupuncture treat-
ment again and again. The Chinese use it also
as an anesthetic or, to use the technical term,
an analgesia.
We spent a couple of days in Hong Kong
and celebrated our 32nd wedding anniversary
by dining with Cecie and Michael (My niece
and her husband; She is the sister-in-law of
Beth Gawthrop Riely '67.) in their beautiful
house on "The Peak." Hong Kong as seen
from Kowloon on the mainland is truly fan-
tastic — high rise along the water's edge with
mountains in the background. The streets
were jammed with cars and bright with sign-
boards and neon lights. By contrast the
Chinese cities were subdued in appearance
with little color and almost no cars except
trucks and taxis.
We visited six Chinese cities, spending
about three days in each except Peking where
we were allowed five. We quickly became used
to various facts of Chinese life: men and
women dress alike and do the same work; day
and night the streets are teeming with bicycles
and pedestrians; "Western" breakfasts were
served us, but for lunch and dinner we had
Chinese dishes and chopsticks only; our
program in each city was arranged only after
we had arrived there; in every hotel room we
were provided with tea, bedroom slippers,
clothes brush and comb, but frequently NO
KEY! We had been told the Chinese were in-
corruptibly honest, but wondered about the
other hotel guests. We decided to keep our
suitcases locked and were relieved to receive
keys in Shanghai and Peking.
Our first stop was Canton, a city of over 2
million people. We spent an entire day at a
Commune about an hour's bus ride from the
city. Driving through the countryside we were
impressed by the intense cultivation of the
land. Every inch was planted, and men and
women were working in the fields, using water
buffalo for ploughing. One of Mao's cardinal
principles was that China should be self suf-
ficient in food and that irrigation and flood
control should be perfected. This he con-
sidered more important than strengthening
the armed forces. All land, we were told.
belongs to the Government or to the Com-
munes.
From Canton we flew to Kweilin (350.000
inhabitants) where the landscape was extra-
ordinary, with such strangely shaped moun-
tains that we seemed to have journeyed to
another planet. We spent an entire day on a
boat trip cruising among these curious forma-
tions.
The next stop was Changsha. capital of
Hunan Province. Highlights of our stay were a
visit to the town of Shaoshan to see Mao's bir-
thplace, now transformed into a museum, and
a tour of the Hunan provincial psychiatric
hospital. Ours was the first group of Western
doctors permitted to visit the hospital. In the
discussion that followed the visit, the question
was put to the Chinese doctor-in-charge
whether dissidents were forced into mental
hospitals as is done in Russia. The answer was
a resounding NO. "Mental illness is never
confused with political conflict. Dissidents are
not put in mental hospitals in China. They un-
dergo a period of self-criticism until they con-
form." He seemed sincere in making this
statement.
From Changsha we traveled to Shanghai by
train, a 26-hour ride with quite comfortable
berths for the night. Shanghai was freezing
cold and our hotel unheated. but the hotel
food was the very best so far. We strolled
along the Bund and visited the "Friendship
Store" where the finest merchandise in China
is for sale to the tourists. One morning was oc-
cupied by a visit to a "residential area" and
the opportunity to see a worker's apartment.
Six people lived in two small rooms plus a
toilet, but shared a kitchen with two other
families. The rent was 4.80 yuan a month
($3.60).
We flew to Peking in a Russian Ilyusgin.
Immediately we felt we were in the nerve cen-
ter of China "where the action is." Our days
were filled with visits to famous
buildings — the Forbidden City, the Temple of
Heaven, the Summer Palace, and of course the
Great Wall. But the most impressive sight of
all was Tian Anmen Square, said to be the
largest square in the world. Standing there.
one felt the vitality of China, the most
populous country of the world, literally made
over by the Liberation of 1949. We saw the
Great Hall of the People, the mausoleum of
Mao, and the Monument to the People's
Heroes. Our visit coincided with a feverish
wall poster campaign, and every time we
passed this area there were hundreds of people
reading them. When we were photographing
them one afternoon, Remy and I were "in-
terviewed" by a young Chinese who spoke
good English, and we were quickly surroun-
ded by a large number of young people. I was
asked some interesting questions about the
U.S. government:
Question: Is the President of the United
States chosen by a group of politicians or is he
elected by the people ?
Answer: He is elected by the people.
Question: But are the people told how to
vote by the politicians?
Answer: The politicians try to tell them how
to vote but they vote as they like.
Question: Why did you throw Nixon out of
power?
Answer: Because he did not tell us the
truth.
Question: Then you think he was behind
Watergate all the time?
Answer: We will never know the whole story
but we think he was.
Question: Do you have wall posters in your
country?
Answer: No.
Question: Then how do people know the
news?
Answer: They read the newspaper and
listen to the radio.
Question: Ah, you have freedom of the
press.'
We came away from China with the feeling
that the people are full of vitality and produc-
tive energy and are determined to transform
their country into a world power. Their brand
of Communism seems more flexible than the
Russian variety, and they do not appear bent
on forcing it on neighboring countries. They
show great respect for their past and are
carefully preserving their historical monumen-
ts, but their faces are turned towards the
future.
— Emma Riely Lemaire '30
Lagos-Algarve, Portugal
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FRESHMAN HONOR LIST
CLASS OF 1982
Mary Ames Booker
Ethel Hunter Ogden Burwell
Carole Carson
Crystal Lee Conger
Cheri Anne DeLay
Anne Venable Edmunds
Christine Judith Gilbride
Katherine Sophia Habeeb
Catherine Marie Hall
Deborah Renee Harvey
Betty Hamilton Hull
Susanne Tremaine Huskey
Heather Iverson
Katharine Noone Johnson
Katharine Holdship Jones
Mary Rolfe Joyner
Lizbeth Lynn Kauffman
Carmen Maria Maegli
Jennifer Jarrett Schwarz
Patti Hughes Snodgrass
Camille Williams Taylor
Dolores Irene Teeter
Margaret Ashley Thistlethwaite
Martha Louise Tisdale
Grace Louise Tredwell
Patricia Jane April Whelan
Wai Chee Yee
Ann Morton Young
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1916
Alice Dick Webster's activity has been
limited since a broken hip some time ago. A
widow tor more than .10 years, she has three
married children, all of whom are nearby- She
lives with her second son in River Forest, IL.
Esther Roberts Blatchford. now in a nurs-
ing home in Illinois, always remembers her
time at Sweet Briar with great affection.
Mary Pennypacker Davis and her sister
Frances '15 are now living quietly at Kendal
at Longwood. an attractive retirement com-
munity in Pennsylvania. They no longer travel
far afield and miss their visits to Sweet Briar.
Jean Stockdale writes from Hollywood. CA,
that she does a lot of gardening and entertain-
ing and visits Philadelphia and Florida nearly
every year. Of her 84 years, she counts the
four spent at Sweet Briar among the most en-
joyable and rewarding, and she is happy that
Sweet Briar has progressed so wonderfully.
1920
D. E. Wallace finds living in Gaithersburg.
MD. a great change from being in Frederick,
but she likes it and feels fortunate to have a
fine young helper who is familiar w ith the area
and lives only five minutes away.
Geraldine Jones Lewis, who lives in a re-
tirement home near Gainesville, TX, still en-
joys reading and visits from relatives and
friends.
Edna Sloan Sewell wrote from Columbus.
OH. that her daughter Janet's husband is a
professor of computer science at Syracuse
U. and her three granddaughters (including
twins) attend Syracuse, each living in a dif-
ferent dorm. They love school and do very
well. Edna goes to Sarasota, FL. in the winter.
Helen Johnston Skinner has enjoyed a year
of retirement and the freedom it brings. She
likes driving friends from Middleburg. VA,
where she lives, into Washington for the
theatre and ballet. She has also enjoyed
several air-sea cruises and was looking for-
ward to another in March when she wrote.
She says that the trip to Israel and Egypt she
took last winter has made reading about the
Middle East more interesting, now that she
can visualize the geography.
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1924
Secretary
Bettv Guv Tranter (Mrs. W. Parke), One
Swallow Hill Rd.. Carnegie, PA 15106
Fund Agent
Jean Grant Taylor (Mrs. Randolph). 785
Arlington Blvd.. Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Frederica Bernard wrote of an interesting
experience last summer. She spent the sum-
mer in New Hampshire. One evening at dinner
the maitre d' introduced her to a new couple.
During their conversation they discovered
that both gals were graduates of Sweet Briar.
Jacqueline Franke Charles says that her
travelling days are over because of arthritis.
Elizabeth Massie Davis writes that their
Rear Admiral son is back in Washington and
is in charge of industrial and management
programs of all shipyards. Their daughter
and family live in California and have two
children in college.
Elizabeth Brewster Tern pel and her hus-
band were given a fiftieth anniversary party
on June 6, 1978. in San Marcos by their
daughter Jody and her husband Dick Howell.
She also attended the alumnae luncheon at
the Torrey Club in La Jolla in October.
Caroline Flynn Eley has a new job at the
new Bahia Mar Hotel and Convention Center
in Ft. Lauderdale and loves it. Her grandson
Cannon is at college in New Mexico.
Esther Jack Arnold lives in Delaware, OH.
Her daughter was married recently and lives
nearby. Her doctor son, his wife, and two-
year-old son Jay live in suburban Baltimore
and visit often.
Shiney Bodine Mountcastle is not feeling
well and is not up to travelling.
Jean Grant Taylor is proud of her younger
son, who teaches at the Hill School. He has
recently received the top award given to a
science teacher, appointment to the Philip
Rogers Mallary Chair of Science.
Rebecca Snyder Garrison is thinking of a
trip to China and may have gone, since friends
did not receive a Christmas card. She has ten
grandchildren.
Mary Claire Petty Hardwick, another long
distance traveler, had an interesting trip
to Iran just before things erupted there. She
and her husband also visited Pakistan and the
lower Himalayas. Their grandson is an honor
student at Yale.
Augusta Gee Loggins writes that the im-
pairment of her peripheral vision hampers
her getting about but does not prevent her
from being the world's best baby-sitter for her
two great-grandchildren, a boy and a girl.
Janet Schureman Wilson lost her husband
ecently. Her daughter Jean is on a six-month
sailing trip in the Caribbean. Janet spent
Christmas in Chicago with son Don and fami-
ly, including her new grandchild.
Mary Rich Robertson recently attended a
delightful wine and cheese party given by
S. B. alumnae Ruxton, MD. The party was
at the home of Harriet Wilcox Gearhart '45,
whose husband is an Episcopalian minister.
Colored slides of S. B. were shown. Mary's son
Robbie lives in Georgetown and is with the
Energy Dept. of the Government.
Susan Fitchett has retired from teaching at
St. Catherine's in Richmond and is living on
the Eastern Shore of Virginia. She is scrap-
book chairman for our 50th reunion. Cali-
fornians Hellen Mowry Fell and Freddie
Bernhard compiled the scrapbook for our
50th in '74, and they were hoping to be at
our 55th.
Muriel Macleod Searby hoped to be out of
Maine before the snows set in last winter and
go to a warmer climate.
Martie Lobingier Lusk, Pittsburgh, sug-
gested forming a survivors's club with our
55th reunion at hand, but family obligations
prevented her from accepting the invitation
to return for our celebration.
Eleanor Harned Arp has moved into a
small apartment in Moline, IL, but is cheered
by the thought that her son Louis and his
family are the new owners of her house. El
spent the winter in Naples, FL, her other
home port, and was looking forward to re-
union when she wrote.
Also living in Moline, Josephine von Maur
Crampton took a four-month tour through
Europe last fall and was planning a March
visit with Elsa Arp in Costa Rica and then a
visit with El Arp in Naples, FL. She too
planned to come to reunion.
Clara King Maxwell spent part of last
summer in the mountains of North Carolina
and part at the beach. She expected to be in
Blowing Rock for October.
Lib Massie Davis wrote from Charleston.
WV. that she hoped to be "on foot" and able
to join classmates for reunion.
Phyllis Millinger Camp, Leechburg. PA,
has started writing a family history to answer
the questions of younger relatives, including
her daughter.
Genevieve Elstun Moodey writes from
Muncie. IN, that they are well and happy
"stay-at-home" and happy to be retired near
all their family.
Anita Wilson Campbell. Knoxville, TN,
writes that she is not well but improving. She
wishes she could get back to Sweet Briar to
renew acquaintances.
Eleanor Sikes Peters was uncertain about
whether she would fly from Peoria for re-
union or come with a younger alumna who
was considering bringing her horse in a car-
drawn van.
According to her son Frank, Elizabeth
Sutton Camp is in a retirement home in
Memphis and not well enough to travel any
more.
(Editor's Note: The Class Secretaries' dead-
line for sending notes for this issue was
February I. News received after this time will
appear next year or in an interim newsletter.]
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Helen Prange Chesebro, who attended
Sweet Briar only one year and graduated from
Wisconsin, lives in Sheboygan. She has two
sons: one runs Wigwam Mills, her husband's
business; the other is a cardiologist on the
staff of Mayo Ginic.
Parke and I are fortunate to have two
granddaughters, 4 and 3. They and their
parents live near us in Pittsburgh.
Much of this is hearsay from a call to Mary
Rich Robertson, who gave me news from
Christmas cards and reunion replies. I hope
you all will send news for our next notes.
1928
Secretary
Grace Sollitt, 1350 Lake Shore Dr., Apt. 1814,
Chicago, I L 60610
Fund Agent
Bonnie Mathews Wisdom (Mrs. John Minor),
1732 Palmer Ave., New Orleans, LA 701 18
Bonnie Mathews Wisdom's wonderful Fund
plea letter is a hard act to follow, but it does
save me telling you about what a great turn-
out and time we had at our 50th Reunion,
due in large part to the efforts of Lou Bristol
Lindemann to get us together and to coordi-
nate our activities once we had arrived. Be-
sides our 22 classmates we also welcomed 8 of
their husbands, who (surprise! surprise!) were
domiciled along with their wives right on our
corridor. Shades of Miss Dutton! And 1 must
say that each and every husband was a great
addition to the gathering.
Some of you didn't come, it was rumored,
because "No one would know me." Please
don't let that thought deter you next reunion.
One look at Kewpie and she was undoubtedly
"Kewpie" — not Marguerite or Mrs. Mc-
Daniel. Tommie Claybrook Bowie who with
her handsome husband Gordon challenged
President Whiteman and partner to a tennis
match (I didn't hear who won) had not turned
into Evelyn (except, perhaps, in evening dress,
slender and stunning!) nor had Squeak and
Mugsy changed to Louise and Mary. And
Rip Van Winkle Morlidge was still Rip after
50, not just 20, years! We missed Footie
(Elizabeth Foote Gearheart) and Inch (Vir-
ginia Culver Mann) and Torchy (Isabelle
McPheeters Stone) but thinking of them
made us remember the remark of the wel-
coming room-assigner at our 25th: "Oh! Yes!
You are in the class with the crazy nick-
names!" And they all still fit. Either that or
the alchemy of returning to our campus in the
beautiful Blue Ridge foothills makes us slip
back for a time into being the people they do
fit. And it is a great experience.
Anne Lane Newell Whatley, who, with her
husband Bob, entertained us hilariously at
the picnic with a song routine worthy of a
night club, went home to an operation from
which, she writes, she is still uncomfortable.
However, when Squeak (Louise Harned Ross)
and George went through Atlanta in early
October enroute from Winnetka to their
winter home in Delray, Anne Lane and
Kewpie with husbands Bob and Mac enter-
tained them royally for dinner and next day
took them on a marvelous tour of that inter-
esting city. Squeak and George will be in
Delray until driving home via their oldest
granddaughter's graduation from William
Smith College in Geneva, NY, in June. Late
in October the McDaniels took off on a won-
derful trip from Istanbul to Vienna on a
Russian ship up the Danube, stopping at the
behind-the-Iron-Curtain cities of Bucharest,
Belgrade, Budapest and Bratislavia. On the
less glamorous side Connie Furman West-
brook said that both she and Kewpie were
kept busy during the summer freezing and
pickling the vegetables that Joe and Mac
raised, but in October she and Joe spent time
in Vermont enjoying fall colors, but were back
in Atlanta in plenty of time to spend Christ-
mas with their daughter's family.
Betty Prescott Balch, again elected Pres-
ident at reunion (who else?), is not looking
very presidential right now, as she is sporting
two black eyes from a fall. However, she did
get to New York City to see the King Tut
show and she and Dick expect to go to Florida
as usual in February where they hope to see
Squeak. Their oldest grandchild is to be
married in June. Betty wrote that she had
heard from Conkie (Louise Conklin Knowles)
and Lib (Elizabeth Crane Hall) at Christmas
and both were well. It would have been sur-
prising if they were not because both of them
looked wonderful at reunion.
Marion Jayne Berguido has her S.B. alum-
nae daughters well placed for year 'round
travel accommodations. She visited Jayne
'54 on Cape Cod in early October where she
and Lou Bristol Lindemann were unable to
have their usual annual meeting but did talk,
then up to Buffalo in November with June '58
and out to California for Christmas with Joy
'64 and back in time to attend a big SBC
dinner party in Philadelphia the end of
January with Jill '67 and her husband. Lou
spent three weeks over Christmas with her
daughter and family in Portland, OR, which
she has come to believe is about the prettiest
section of the U.S. She 'phoned Footie in Los
Angeles while there and reports that all 70
pounds of her are as full of humor as ever. She
had expected to return via Chicago, but was
rerouted through Denver as Chicago was
snowed in — she should write me that! It
has been an odd sensation driving down
city streets, if you can drive at all, with snow
banks often as high as the car! Lou has also
talked several times with Kay Emery Eaton
(who made her first return to SB at our 50th)
since they drove back to the Cape and says she
survived the trip OK but still was facing more
medical tests.
Kitty Leadbeater Bloomer writes that her
son Brad and wife from New York City were
with her for Christmas and she hopes that
next year son Peter and family from Flag-
staff. AZ, will be able to be with her too.
Mugsy (Mary Nelms Lockwood to her
friends in Mobile) and her nice husband Joe,
who came to reunion too, I think may have
some kind of a record for Sweet Briar reunions.
The last time they were back was at our 25th
when they came not only for reunion but for
their daughter's graduation. This time their
daughter, Nan Locke Rosa '53, was back not
only for her own 25th reunion but also for
her daughter's graduation. Nice pattern.
Joe is quoted as saying he had never seen
such an attractive bunch of swingers our age.
Joe, you may return to our 60th — our 75th
is too long to wait! The Lockes had a trip to
Hawaii in November but returned to have
Christmas with their two daughters and
grandchildren during which time they had a
refresher course on the lifestyle of teenagers
today.
Helen Davis Mcllrath and I drove down
to College together. We spent the night en-
route with Jane Hardy Bellows and Charles
in Bay City, OH, who couldn't join us at re-
union because Charlie, like Footie. would find
it hard to travel with a tank of oxygen along,
though he is fine if people around him ob-
serve the "No Smoking" signs and he remem-
bers not to run upstairs. Except for her white
hair Jane looks and sounds just as she did in
college. They have five grands: three girls in
college, one boy graduated and living in
San Francisco, and a teenage girl still at home
in Bay City. They plan to take their annual
trip to Southern California in February.
John and Rip Morlidge (Virginia Van
Winkle) were in Myrtle Beach last summer
but are at home in the ice belt now. Betty
Harms Slaughter and John Ed came by to
see them in the fall. John Ed has a position
with the Episcopal Church that keeps them
travelling, which they enjoy. Rip also heard
from Anne Beth Price Clark's husband
Howard that they were sorry not to be able to
attend reunion because Anne Beth had to
have a cataract operation.
Virginia Morris Kincaid had expected to be
at reunion but she was too busy helping
launch the first Nationally Chartered Wo-
men's Bank in the U.S. in Washington to
get away. Now she says the bank is in the
black after only eight months of operation
(usually it takes at least a year) and she is. re-
laxing by visiting her daughter in Coronada,
CA.
Elizabeth Joy Porter writes that she sees
Virginia Vernor Collins (even more glamorous
looking than in college) and Teal Barrow Lane
and husband Hunter when they come to Tyron
and also that Pet Sheppard Nash '29 and
Strudwick spent a weekend at her home last
spring. Lib's granddaughter Kathy Porter will
be skating in the Ice Capades in Chicago in
March. Marion Sumner Beadle lives in Albu-
querque, NM, on the flanks of the Saudias
and says she would like to have any western
travelling classmates stop in to see her. She
has a daughter living in Albuquerque too as
well as two small granddaughters.
Anne Harrison Shepherd Lewis is a good
classmate to remember if you get into trouble;
not only is her husband a lawyer, but so are
all three of her sons! The oldest is a common-
wealth attorney. One son married an SB girl
and between them all Anne Harrison is grand-
mother to nine.
It was good to see Winne West Morris in
May. but we missed looking beyond to see
Grace Sutherland Owings who was unable
to be with us because of family illness, and
who writes that she missed us too but missed
more poignantly the chance to "climb on some
horses to ride with Winnie over well remem-
bered terrain."
Betty Failing Bernhard has recently moved
to Springfield. NJ. She spent Thanksgiving
with her Sweet Briar alumna daughter Bar-
bara MacLea '56, who lives in Baltimore.
Barbara Bruske Dewey has also moved. She
now lives in Grand Rapids, MI, close to her
son and his family. She is another who winters
in Florida, but she did not mention where.
Rose Berger Griggs has retired from teach-
ing in Lexington. KY, where she moved after
her husband's death in '55 to be near her
remarkably active mother who is now 94 years
old. She reports that Sarah Dance Krook has
moved from Texas into the same building in
which she lives.
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Alice Webb Nesbitt reports that she is living
peacefully and comfortably on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland.
Nancy King Tarpley writes that she lives in
a large Virginia county that must be unique in
the East in that it neither has nor needs a
single traffic light. This pleases her as she
describes herself as a thoroughgoing "con-
servative deploring drastic change." But she
also says she loves and is grateful to Sweet
Briar. I wonder if she has visited our campus
lately. I think she would still love it. but there
have been changes, as well there should be in
50 years, because growth brings change and
Sweet Briar has grown in all dimensions since
our day. There are now among many other
changes two lakes and a natatorium, French
professors who speak French, a handsome
Library with study rooms and study aids,
a theater with curtains that work and a lovely,
gracious chapel. You should all stop by and
tour the College; you would find it very much
the same, but oh! so different.
As I write this I look out my window and see
a sheet of snowy ice covering the waters of
Lake Michigan and I find it hard to realize
that when you read this there will be hundreds
of boats out there and sun-bathing bodies
strewn all along the shore, so don't blame me
if the news above is no longer "news" to you
— it takes over six months from my pen to
your door! Thanks for writing and keep the
notes coming.
1932
Secretary
Elizabeth (Ted) Clary Treadwel! (Mrs. Ben-
jamin B.), 5208 Andover Rd., Chevy Chase,
MD 20015
Fund Agent
Marion Malm Fowler (Mrs. W. McDaniel),
6118 Del Cerro Blvd., San Diego, CA 92120
[Note from Class President, Ruth Remon
McRae:
One reward for taking on the job of Gass
President has been the opportunity to spend
more time with Elizabeth (Ted) Clary Tread-
well and her delightful husband Ben. Because
of Connie Fowler Keeble's operations, Ted
kindly agreed to take on the Class Secretary's
duties and that is why you see her name at
the beginning of this column. I hope that all
of you will make Ted happy by sending in your
latest news for the next issue. Also, I want to
repeat my plea to please, please contribute
to the Alumnae Fund. If you haven't sent
anything in yet, make Marion Malm Fowler's
job a little easier by doing so today. ]
Let me say thanks for the grand response
to my request for news to be printed in this
issue. It is great fun reading your cards and
my excitement is growing when I think of our
50th Reunion not too far in the distance.
Several classmates with whom I was in touch
regarding our 45th all said they were planning
on returning for our Big One!
Your president, Ruth Remon McRae, says
that she has little to add to the account of her
activities reported in 1978. Meetings and com-
mittee duties are still spread among the same
volunteer organizations with no time to take
on additional areas. However, she spent much
of the summer enjoying the pool at her apart-
ment. For the first time in many years she
spent a week in December in the New York
area visiting her daughter Sister Kristen
Wenzel, who was enjoying a semester break
from the U. of California at Berkeley, where
she is spending a sabbatical doing some post-
doctoral study and research.
Alice Dabney Parker and husband were
disappointed that they were unable to hear
their daughter Fleming Parker Rutledge '59
preach at the National Cathedral in Washing-
ton on Dec. 3. They plan on being in Rich-
mond in February to hear her preach at St.
Paul's for a week during Lent. Their other
daughter is currently the tennis champion of
the South Carolina Jr. Net Division in singles,
doubles, and mixed doubles! Alice enjoyed her
trips to NYC this past year and revelled in
attending rehearsals of the NYC Ballet.
Helen Pratt Secrest did hear Alice Dabney
Parker's daughter preach at the National
Cathedral and was greatly impressed. Her
travels this past year with her husband have
been confined to the USA — Albuquerque in
May to attend the high school graduation of
the granddaughter, on to Santa Fe to visit
her brother and family, and in October their
usual trek to North Carolina to visit her sister-
in-law and to enjoy the glories of the Smokies.
Charlotte Magoffin wrote to thank those
responsible for the fine write-up of our class
in the Alumnae Magazine and to say that all
is well with her. She missed getting a tele-
phone call from Ruth Remon McRae last
summer.
The class will join me in expressing deepest
sympathy to Hazel Stamps Collins and her
daughters Cecil and Florence, both Sweet
Briar alumnae, for the death in January of
Charlie Collins. Hazel and Charlie divided
their time between Atlanta and Naples, FL.
Mary Moore (Flappy) Pancake Mandeville
was at the moment she wrote trying to get her
house organized for the Historic Staunton
Christmas House Tour. She had had her an-
nual visit with Virginia Bellamy Ruffin and
her husband during their stay at the Home-
stead at Hot Springs in August.
Ruth Kerr Fortune keeps busy with volun-
teer work — Girl Scouts, Hospital Auxiliary,
Planned Parenthood, plus book club and
garden club — and sandwiches a little bridge
in between. She hoped Elizabeth Job Jopp
would be coming to New Mexico in January
or February.
Sue Burnett Davis and her husband had a
marvelous trip on the Danube from Ismael
in Russia to Vienna. Along were the follow-
ing Sweet Briarites and their husbands: Mar-
guerite Hodnett McDaniel '28, Teresa
Atkinson Greenfield '30, and Catherine Tift
Porter '44. After all these years the Davises
finally sold their home and bought a con-
dominium.
Kate Scoff Soles spent last summer in
Athens, where her son was doing research in
archeology; then she toured Northern Europe,
enjoying the museums and absorbing the
Rembrandts and Rubens to her heart's con-
tent. Finally she reached Paris, where she
spent the Christmas holidays.
Virginia Squibb Flynn is enjoying her con-
tacts with SB friends as president of the Fair-
field, CT, Alumnae Club. Their bulb sales
more than doubled this year. She was pleased
to have Dean Patt when she was in Connecti-
cut for the fall NEH gathering of Alumnae.
Virginia Finch Waller remarks that her
granddaughter is a junior at the U. of N. C.
and her grandson enters college next fall; the
family is thankful for a pause before the 9
and 7-year-olds reach college age!
Susan Gay Linville writes that they are all
fine. She has returned to her painting as a
hobby which she finds most rewarding. She
is back on the Board of Trustees of Coker Col-
lege in Hartville, SC. where she has served for
27 years.
Sarah (Chubby) Harrison Merrill men-
tioned that Mildred Hodges Ferry was tour-
ing England after a trip to Russia last spring.
Chubby and Art had a cruise through the
Canal in January '78 and that April another
great trip to Egypt and the Greek Isles with
fun friends. Their oldest son is a cardiologist
at the Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta and has
a fabulous wife and five children. Their sec-
ond son is head of a real estate firm dealing
in everything from Atlanta to Arizona, and
their third son finished law school summa
cum laude, acquired a wife and two-year-old
daughter, and practices there in Atlanta. The
Merrills were about to celebrate their 40th
anniversary.
In October Marcia Patterson had a two-
day visit with Wilhelmina Rankin Teter '30 in
Orlando following the wedding of her first
cousin in West Palm Beach. In November
Jean Saunders '30 joined her and a friend
for luncheon. Jean has retired as Curator of
the Putnam County Historical Museum.
After her years of travel while in the Foreign
Service, Mildred Larimer retired in 1967 and
moved to Hawaii to live. She loves Honolulu
as she enjoys the outdoors — swims a half-
mile each day, walks 40 minutes, and does
yoga for half an hour. She weighs the same as
she did at 17—105! She left Hawaii in 1970
for two years and went to Europe, traveling all
over in her Fiat, and to South America on an
Italian ship, stopping at 15 ports in 11 coun-
tries. In '76 she took a 20-day cruise to Syd-
ney, Australia, stopping at ports along the
way. She sees Barbara Munter Purdue when
she comes over from Seattle each year and also
Marjorie Gubelman Herters, whom Barbara
visits.
Eleanor Franke Crawford writes, "Despite
my arthritic back and poor health, it has been
a good year. My gorgeous son is home with me
and squires me around. My red -head daugh-
ter is finally pregnant at age 35 and will have
a baby girl in March — the miracles of modern
medicine."
Anne MacRae retired last August and since
moving to Rochester, NY, has been living the
life of a nomad. She soon plans to settle
down in suburban Philadelphia. She writes,
"After working for so many years, I feel like
a non-person now, but expect that I will sur-
vive this identity crisis."
Anne (Gussie) Gilbert Davy and Hugh
have an old flat near Fisherman's wharf in
San Francisco and a week-end vacation home
in Pebble Beach. Both are happy hackers at
golf. Hugh is semi-retired but very busy. They
travel a lot, mainly to Hawaii and Europe.
They have a daughter at Ft. Collins, CO, a
sonin S.F., and seven grandchildren, six of
whom live in the S.F. area. With no immedi-
ate family in the East, they rarely go back any
more, but they hoped to get to Hilton Head,
SC, for the Masters Golf in April.
Jane Hays Dowler has just completed a
family history for her grandchildren, who are
too young to have memories of any of their
ancestors, even their grandfather. It was a
great project with three years of research,
each generation leading back to another. She
spent two weeks in Hawaii and then a few days
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with her daughter and her girls in Disneyland
last summer. Jane comments. "If you have
to endure widowhood, keep busy and you'll
keep your friends."
Emma Knowlton Lytle had a most inter-
esting and meaningful trip to Israel. Switzer-
land and France with the Bauman Travel
Ministry — perhaps you have heard the Ed-
ward Bauman Television Bible Broadcast.
Her interest in painting and sculpture con-
tinues with a showing in Jackson. MS, in
January and Greenville, MS. in February
and March. She hears from Caralisa Barn'
Pollard.
Dorothy Smith Berkeley's daughter Judith
Berkeley Harrison '60 and her husband are
going on a week's cruise to the Bahamas.
Connie Fowler Keeble wrote me about
Judith's earning her RN and now working as
head nurse in the pediatric section of a hos-
pital in Atlanta. She certainly demonstrates
how one can have five children and still hold
down a responsible job.
Connie Fowler Keeble had a wonderful visit
with her son in Germany last summer. Upon
her return home she underwent a hip opera-
tion and shortly thereafter a cataract opera-
tion. Happily she came through both with
flying colors. She hoped to get out to Colorado
in the spring to visit her son. daughter-in-law
and their second child due around Christmas
time.
Frances Sencendiver Stewart writes that
she and Bill are traveling as much as they
can while they are still mobile. After enjoy-
ing their cruise to the Red Sea aboard the
Argonaut during the winter of '78, they flew
to Copenhagen last summer and spent three
weeks aboard her again, visiting Leningrad,
Stockholm, Oslo and many islands, after
which they spent five days cruising the fiords.
They planned a third cruise last winter.
kma\\e Frank Kohn was in Washington last
May when I saw her at our 50th reunion of
our high school. She writes that her first re-
union ever was such a success that she now is
planning on attending the 50th at Sweet Briar.
Her husband is still working and only talks
about retiring. They enjoy their two daughters
and families in New York and Virginia.
Virginia Bellamy Ruffin writes that they
enjoyed two weeks at the Homestead at Hot
Springs. VA, in August, the highlight being
that Mary Moore Pancake Mandeville came
from Staunton to spend the day. They spent
Thanksgiving at Southern Pines and were
joined there by their daughter, son-in-law
and three grandchildren from Wilmington,
DE.
Marjorie Ward Cross spent a month . in
Devon, Cornwall and London last May and
since returning has been working a great
deal at Winterthur Museum in Wilmington,
DE. She spent Christmas in Chicago with
her oldest son and four grandsons and hopes
to spend some time in France in May.
Eleanor Nolle Armstrong welcomed a third
grandchild in the spring of '78. Later while
traveling for the Alliance of Pan American
Round Tables, she worked in a visit with
Virginia Nalle Page and Hallie Orr Barton,
and they had great fun recalling their days at
SB!
Eleanor Wright Conway writes that they
moved from St. Petersburg, FL, to Durham,
NC, last July. Her husband is taking some
graduate work at Duke, while she spends her
time getting lost in the stacks in the library.
The change has been good for them after
the tragic death of their son last November.
We all send them our deepest sympathy.
Barbara Munter Purdue reports, "This
past year has been a very busy one for our
family. During the past five months we've
had 22 house guests overnight due to the King
Tut Exhibit's being here in Seattle. Jane
White Burton was in town last September
and we had a wonderful luncheon visit to-
gether. She's just as pretty as ever and full
of vitality."
Stuart Groner Moreno writes, "I see Pat
Malm Fowler and her nicest, most friendly
husband often but not often enough. She
looks well and young. I just came from Palm
Desert where 14 of us attended a retreat at
the Episcopal Monastery which was inter-
esting and spiritual. My husband just won't
retire. We did have a grand trip to Canada
last September — Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper,
etc., a gorgeous park, particularly at this sea-
son when the trees are in reds and yellows
with the snowcapped mountains in the back-
ground.
Ben and 1 toured the British Isles in June
with a lively and interesting group. Septem-
ber found us driving west to visit our daugh-
ter, her husband and their two girls, 8 and
10, in Illinois and on to South Dakota, where
we visited our son, his wife and their son, 4.
From there we flew to San Diego for a mar-
velous visit with Marion Malm Fowler and
her husband. We saw their very attractive
daughter and granddaughter who also live
in San Diego. In March the Fowlers are fly-
ing to Florida to visit their other daughter,
son-in-law and grandsons. In November we
drove to Memphis to visit Elizabeth Doughtie
Bethea and enjoyed her Southern hospitality.
Her second daughter has two art galleries,
teaches painting in one and operates the other
as a gift shop. We also saw her handsome
lawyer son who practices in Memphis. Her
older daughter, Maury Bethea Cain '61, lives
in Potomac, suburban Washington, with her
husband and three children and is a writer
for the local paper.
At the moment, Ben and I are getting
excited over our son's and daughter's leaving
their families and flying home to visit their
Dad for a week in honor of his 70th birthday
in February!
Thanks again for your prompt response
with news. Start planning now to return to
Sweet Briar in 1982!
1940
Secretary
Georgia Herbert Hart (Mrs. George Childs),
2401 Wilmot Ave., Columbia, SC 29205
In the shadows of an elegant evening garden
party at the 1978 Masters Golf Tournament
I introduced myself, "I am Georgia Hart . . ."
"And I am Mariana Bush King," "And I am
Marion Coles Phinizy Jones!" came instant
rejoinders, followed by hilarious laughter as
this southern SBC coalition met again in
Augusta. GA. Age has certainly not withered
the other two — Mariana is refreshingly de-
lightful and "Phin" is quaint and adorable.
I missed seeing Jane Bush Long and Mildred
Moon Montague, who wrote last April, "Just
back from our 19th trip to the Masters." We
will be looking for her this year and other
Briarites as well.
Mildred also wrote, "Tell Sinclaire Farrar
is coming to visit and give a lecture at the
Houston Museum on Corning Glassmakers.
She has written three books along this line.
Nancy Haskins Elliot will be with us a few
days, after a stop in Birmingham to see Kitty
Esles Johnston. We had a trip to Vienna and
the legendary Alps last September, celebrat-
ing our 36th wedding anniversary. Strenuous
but fun." In February Mildred received the
A to Z Woman's Award for Outstanding Com-
munity Service in Chattanooga. Kitty John-
ston stays busy in Birmingham between com-
munity service, family and entertaining in
town and weekends at their Alabama country-
place.
Mary Frances "Hazy" Hazelton. hospital-
ized in November and December, is recovering
with spirit. Now mobile with a brace on her
right foot and a four-footed walking cane,
she hoped to be back at work in February. She
will be moving to Sonoma, CA, a small his-
toric town just an hour from her beach abode
about which she writes so eloquently and
lovingly.
Irene Vongehr Vincent enjoys mail from
Sweet Briar and regrets that Washington
state is so far away. After two recent trips
to China, the country of her birth, she found
both winter and summer fascinating with
many new things that seem to have grown out
of China's old things. She now calls China
"old-new." Her husband is retired; two mar-
ried daughters have two little boys and one
little girl; the Vincents have one single daugh-
ter and a son who is a senior at the U. of
Washington. Irene works hard at writing and
plans to go to China a third time at the end
of January 1979.
Barbara Smith Whitlock had lunch with
Ann Adamson Taylor last summer in Bay
Head, also Elsie Meeds Flaherty '41. She and
her husband plan a trip this winter to see
their son Jim, who is a professor at Stanford
Medical School. Mary Frances Barnhardt
Ridenhaur is a patient at Hawthorne Nursing
Center in Charlotte, NC, while she recovers
from a serious stroke.
Muriel Barrows Neall wishes she could
add several zero's to her SBC check. She is
proud of her alma mater and hopes the en-
couraging and "happy" reports continue "just
this way!" Helen Taylor's mother Alma Booth
Taylor '11, member of the second graduating
class at Sweet Briar, had her 90th birthday
Oct. 19, 1978. The celebration with family and
friends included Frances Murrell Rickards
TO.
Cynthia Noland Young writes, "At last a
grandchild: Jeremy Randolph Poland, born
June 4. 1978, in Muncie, IN, son of daughter
Betsy (B.A. Vassar, Ph.D. Ariz. State) and
Scott Poland. Twin Mary (B.A. Wellesley)
is a grad student at MIT Business School
after two years with Data Resources. Twin
Lucy (B.S. Purdue, Lt. Jg. USN) is a Navy Jet
Pilot, stationed at Barbers Point, Hawaii."
Clara Pringle Neel wrote, "Can't seem to
stop moving! After selling my condominium
in South Florida, I moved to Atlanta and am
house shopping. I have been in touch with the
SBC Alumnae here and look forward to join-
ing them. Son George and lovely spouse have
just completed a spacious home on Lake
Lanier; so we have all been busy."
Beth Thomas Mason writes that Clara
Call Frazier and part of her family have been
in Seattle outfitting a sailboat. They hoped
to get together before Clara returned to Cali-
20
fornia.
Reba Smith Gromel was planning to move
to Sarasota. FL, in April.
Ann Sims is the supervisor of an expanding
Outreach Program in Fort Smith. AR. and
does library P. R. as well.
1944
Secretary
Virginia Noyes Pillsbury (Mrs. Virginia N.).
5605 W. Pine Lane, 108 N. Mequon, WI
53092
Fund Agent
Dorothy Denny Sutton (Mrs. F. Edmund),
Guilford Towers Apt. 412, 14 W. Cold Spring
Lane, Baltimore. MD 21210
By the time you all read this our 35th re-
union will have come and gone and some of
you will know already much of what is written
herein. When Betty Farinholt Cockrill and I
were at Alumnae Council in October we had
a chance to see Sandy Anderson Bowley and
her husband Freeman. They moved to Am-
herst in July, and Sandy is now in charge of
the college greenhouse. Freeman is retired
and spends much time on the golf course at
Winton Country Club.
Frances Longino Shroder and Norma
Bradley Arnold were both on the Alumnae
Association sponsored trip to Rome in Octo-
ber. Mary Churchill Walker Van de Water
and husband were on the trip to Ireland in
July but under the aegis of W&L. Janet
Staples Munt is working as the chief con-
sultant for Mental Health and Social Service
in Burlington. VT, and also has a small pri-
vate practice. Persis Ladd Herold director
of the Math Center. Washington, D.C., in
1978 published Math Teaching Handbook,
plus a workbook and six math teaching
games. In March she was to speak to the Nat.
Asso. of Independent Schools on "Overcom-
ing Math Anxiety." Her three sons are in
college, but one should have graduated from
Hampshire College by now. Fence Williams
Gookin has a new grandchild, her second.
Her husband Richard went to South America
and Africa with the President in the spring
of '78. Both Fence and Richard will escort the
Prime Minister of Thailand and his wife to
New York, Palm Springs, Los Angeles and
Honolulu. Muriel Abrash Schapiro is now
the grandmother of two boys. She has a new
library position in the religious school of
Temple Beth-El in Richmond.
Ellen Boyd Duval Miller says they have
built a new house in the woods 25 miles from
Richmond and are very happy with it. Pat
Whitaker Waters' son Stephen was married
in July. Jean Ryan Kehl's husband Bill is the
Director of the Office of Academic Com-
puting at UCLA. They live in Pacific Pali-
sades and their house was only two blocks
from the path of the Mandeville Canyon fire in
October. The house came through safely, but
it was a close call. Murrell Rickards Patrick
is in her second year with Gotham Travel Ser-
vice in New York City. In November she
made a two-week trip to Kenya She sent a
brochure she put out about a ski trip to
Sweden with an additional tour of Russia.
It sounded very exciting.
Barbara Duncombe Lang was married in
March. 1978, to Lauren Stolp in South Sud-
bury, MA. They are living in her house in
Philadelphia. Margie Eggers Perry sent me a
more than full page article about their house
and its landscaping in the Mercer Island Re-
porter. The article was most interesting, but
the black and white pictures did not do the
place justice. It is lovely. Helen Gravalt Watt's
daughter spent the school year '78-'79 at St.
Andrews in Scotland and the rest of the familv
went over there to spend Christmas with her.
Kay Mensing Teitgen, who was in our class
only freshman year, lives very near to me. but
we seldom see each other. All of her children
are in college — Marcia at Mt. Vernon, Tom at
Purdue and Rob at the U. of Wisconsin in
Madison. Kay is now serving a term as the
president of the Milwaukee Visiting Nurse
Association. Marian Shanley Jacobs' son Bill,
Jr., was married in June, 1978. In August
Marian received an M.S. in Rehabilitation
Placement and she and Bill, Sr.. celebrated by
taking the QE II to England in September.
Babe Loveland Swanbeck and Ray had a great
sail in the British West Indies in the fall. Their
daughter Ann is at Mary Baldwin.
Marjorie Adelaide Woods Williamson's
husband retired Jan. 1. 1979, and they have
bought a home in Vienna, IL, where they will
move as soon as the snow banks melt. They
have two sons, both Captains in the U.S.M.C.
One, who is stationed on Okinawa, was mar-
ried in December to a Bryn Mawr graduate.
The other is stationed in Des Moines, IA, on
recruiting duty.
Frances Bradley Matthews' son Maxi-
milian, II, a graduate of Sewanee U., won a
Rotary Club scholarship for a year's study in
Germany. Frances has two married daughters
and one grandson.
Anita Lippitt Clay's older son, Stuart, is a
pilot for Delta Airlines; other son. Henry,
graduated from Georgia Tech and is a mis-
sionary with the Navigators in Bonn, Ger-
many. Her daughter Margaret is graduating
from the U. of Georgia this year.
While in D.C. for a five-day course at the
National Library of Medicine, Louise Kons-
berg Noll had a good visit with Jean Blanton
Murphy and Ann Moore Remington. The
Nolls' daughter Penny graduated in May
from the U. of Maryland and is teaching
kindergarten in Arlington. VA. Since son
Bill and his family still live in Belvidere. NJ.
they see them often.
I had a very interesting trip to Nicaragua in
July. My oldest daughter. Jeannette '72. left
the Episcopal religious order she was in in
February '78 and spent five months working
in a mission in Puerto Somoza. a very poor
town on the west coast, before coming back
to a teaching job in Caroline County, VA. I
went to Puerto Somoza for Jeannette's last
week there and had a very good time, but
the poverty and cultural deprivation were
like nothing I had ever seen before. An ex-
perience like that makes one thankful for the
kind of life we have, but at the same time it
makes one feel a little guilty.
1948
Secretary
Martha Davis Barnes (Mrs. Waddell). 4459
Old Club Rd., Macon, GA 31204
Fund Agent
Martha Mansfield Clement (Mrs. Martha
M.), Sweet Briar, VA 24595
A challenging year lies ahead for Ann
Rowland Tuck of Nashville who has been
appointed head of the Department of Con-
servation for Tennessee by Governor-elect
Lamar Alexander. An equal challenge faces
Martha Mansfield Clement who has swapped
a teaching career for her new duties as Direc-
tor of Research in the Development Office
at SBC. She is enjoying fixing up an old farm-
house which she shares with #3 daughter, a
Junior at SBC.
Vi Whitehead Morse visited Dolly Antrim
and Jim McKenna in December at their
home in Norfolk, where Jim is in command
of the Supply Depot. Mary McKenna is a
Freshman at SBC. SBC Day in Washington
brought Vi, Nancy Vaughn Kelly, Kay Vance
Johns, and Dot Wallace Wood together. Dot's
daughter Betsy, a '78 SBC graduate, attended
the Paralegal Institute in Philadelphia and
now lives in Alexandria. Brandy Wood, Class
of '80, is at St. Andrews this year.
Eve Godchaux Hirsch reports that after
1 1 years as Registrar at Newman School in
New Orleans, she has changed career direc-
tions and is secretary to the president of a
wholesale linen distributor. Her son Richard
works in New Orleans for a coffee importer.
Sylvia Saunders Davis is "into" real estate
since her children are on their own; Cary is a
lawyer, Duncan approaches the end of his
medical training, and the youngest is seek-
ing his fortune in the fashion field in Italy.
Frazer Realty recently claimed the talents
of Julie Blakey Butler in their Portland sales
force. She follows daughter Terry who is a
R.E. agent in York. PA. Son Chip, '77 Reed
graduate, does actuary work for PHA Insur-
ance; Kathy is a pre-med student at Lewis
and Clark; and Barb, a Mills College student,
is currently a delegate to the American Uni-
versity Semester in Washington, D.C. Ann
Porter Mullen keeps busy as a high school
tutor in basic English and works part time in
a science/toy shop. Daughter Betsey is work-
ing in Florida prior to trying for Vet School
in the fall, Ned still works at Tahoe, and Jim
attends Westminister. Josephine Neal Pere-
grine continues her work as a learning dis-
abilities consultant. Son Peter is a high school
sophomore; Chris, a freshman at Perdue; and
Michael, a student at Northwestern Law
School.
Jane Miller Wright wrote last August that
they were living at Alamitos Bay in Long
Beach with their boat "out front." She adds.
"Surely the Class of 1948 has to take grand-
children to Disneyland sometime."
Ouizie (Mary Louise) Lloyd was promoted
to full professor last year. She is now land-
scaping her recently completed retirement
home in Downington. NJ, and advises that
the latch key is out to "48ers." Evalena
Sharp Vidal's post-SBC achievements in-
clude an M.A. in Political Science from
Wellesley; a diploma from the Academy of
International Law, The Hague; and the Doc-
torate of International Law from the Law
School, U. of Paris. Her career included 12
years of service in Embassies in Madrid.
Rome, and Paris. She now resides in Reston,
VA, with children Larry, 17, and Vicki, 14.
Having grown up abroad, they both speak
fluent French, Spanish, and Italian.
Marguerite Rucker Ellett suffered a broken
hip New Year's Eve while visiting in Cham-
bersburg. PA. and only returned home late in
January. Jane Taylor Ix writes that son Jeff
has put his engineering skills to work for
Proctor and Gamble in Greenville, NC.
Younger son. Gregg, awaits college accept-
21
anee and Elizabeth is an award winning
swimmer.
Our most unusual achiever of the year is
Martha Frye Nye who, in addition to passing
her licensure exam for Nursing Home Admin-
istrators, managed to survive the rigors of a
nine-day Outward Bound Course for Women.
You may have sighted her familiar face in
the CBS "Magazine" coverage of this feat.
Caroline Haskell Simpson's youngest child
is a Freshman at Northwestern. Caroline is
involved with art programs in the Geneva-
Chicago area as well as holding an elected
position on the local library board. Ann Orr
Savage keeps her French up to date with a
conversation group and continues her child-
oriented volunteer work. She is looking for-
ward to the June marriage of elder son Dun-
can, a 2nd year medical student.
Westray Boyce Nicholas enjoys frequent
trips to England with husband Roy as well
as visits to their cottage at Seabrook Island
near Charleston. Katy Dickey, daughter of
Kitty Doolin, attends Mary Washington
and is aiming for law school. Younger sister
Virginia is a UVA Freshman. Meon Bower
Harrison writes "no news," but I must insist
that her superb performance as class fund
agent has been good news over many years
and wish to convey the warmest thanks from
all of '48 for a job exceptionally well done,
always with the personal touch.
Closey Faulkner Dickey has left Cape Cod
for the mountains, where Whit is now presi-
dent of the National Bank of Lebanon, NH.
They are building a contemporary solar house
plus greenhouse. Spare time is spent skiing.
A Department of Justice appointment as
Eastern Regional Commissioner of the Im-
migration Service transplanted Stan and Nan
Steptoe McKinley to Burlington, VT, in
November. Daughter Jeanne is a Senior at
Allegheny; Dottie, a Sophomore at Bucknell;
and Stan, Jr., a 9th grader. Nan keeps in touch
with Ann Paxson Gail who has two children
at Stanford: Ann, a freshman and member
of the cross country ski team, and Bill, a
junior who is on the track team. Another '48
offspring in California is Cathy Hardage '73,
daughter of Beezie DeVore Towers, whose
husband is a resident in Radiology at the
Oakland Hospital. Cathy's 2nd son was born
there in October. Sally Towers plans a spring
wedding and Margaret aims for law school
following graduation from Emory in March.
San Jose claims Susan Snodgrass Wynne '72
(daughter of Eleanor Potts), whose husband
is General Manager of station KNTV.
"Pottsie's" husband Strib Snodgrass has
been serving as resident manager for a firm
which is developing the port in Alexandria,
Egypt. He planned to be back in Norfolk for
Christmas.
The debut of daughter Jennie Lee kept
Helen Elliott Sockwell busy during the holi-
days. Patty Traugoti Rouse recently attended
the opening of a Rouse Shopping Center in
Augusta, GA, where she saw Mary Barrett
Heard and Suzanne Hardy Beaufort. Daugh-
ter Maria Rixey '78 is now working in mort-
gage banking in Washington. Patty spends
spare time "throwing pots."
Peggy Sheffield Martin's daughter Lisa
(Dartmouth '78) is Company Manager of the
Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City.
Peggy enjoys being grandmother to son
David's first child.
Suzanne Hardy Beaufort has enjoyed travel
in the USA this year with a trip to the Spoleto
Festival in Charleston being the highlight.
A recent trip to the Yucatan was the out-
standing travel event for Martha Sue Skinner
Logan. Her younger son. Bright, will grad-
uate from Mercer U. this year. My daughter
Sarah, a December graduate of Vanderbilt,
is now in San Francisco working for United
California Bank.
Judy Perkins Llewellyn's energies go toward
the planning of an authentic 17th century
garden for the Stanley Whitman house of the
Farmington Museum in Connecticut. Singled
out for their outstanding service to the com-
munity over many years. Dr. and Mrs. David
McCallie (Maddin Lupton) became the first
couple to be awarded the Distinguished Ser-
vice Award by the Kiwanis Club of Chat-
tanooga.
We send our love and sympathy to Wayne
Stokes Goodall and Caroline Rankin
Mapother, each of whom has lost her husband
recently.
It has been a busy year! I am sorry not to
have been at the 30th Reunion, but under-
stand that it was great fun and that "years
just melted away!"
1952
Secretary
Benita Phinizy Johnson (Mrs. Thos. M., Jr.),
2388 Hanover West La., N.W., Atlanta, GA
30327
Fund Agent
Frances Street Smith (Mrs. Gordon L., Jr.),
1609 Edgewood Cir., Chattanooga, TN
37405
January '79 the Johnsons started the new
year with great anticipation. I had been sum-
moned for jury duty for the first time. Al-
though I could have been excused, as my
piano teaching schedule is full, I felt that
this was a more important contribution to
make. Tommy started a course in Theology
Education Extension, TEE, under the aus-
pices of Sewanee Theological Seminary. We
also had so much to be thankful for: Mary
Louise (20) and her husband's safe return
to Atlanta after driving home from Nevada
at Christmas through the Dallas blizzard:
Stewart's (25) announcement of his engage-
ment; Tommy Ill's (27) election as an officer
in his Dad's firm; but most of all, for our
continuing good health and growth in our
marriage.
This past summer the Rev. Dr. James Fen-
hagen, Eulalie McFalis husband was chosen
as dean and president of General Theological
Seminary, New York City, the oldest Episco-
pal seminary in the U.S. Eulalie has an
M.S.W. and, while living in Hartford, she
worked as a psychotherapist — primarily with
married couples.
I often have phone conversations with
Robbin McGarry Ramey, who is teaching
art classes in miniature oils and has sold a
number of her paintings. Her husband Bob
was granted an honorary D.D. from Hamp-
ton-Sydney in May '78. Andrea, a senior in
high school, was president of the student
council and was crowned Homecoming
Queen. She has received one of the four Pres-
ident's Scholarships from Presbyterian Col-
lege in Clinton, SC. Robbin's son Garry, a stu-
dent at St. Andrews College in Laurinburg,
NC, attended Eckart College in St. Peters-
burg, FL, for his January term. He studied
business management in the year 2.000!
Garry is very athletic — loves tennis and cross
country running.
It was a delight to hear again from Mary
Byrd Gesler Hanson who was one of my
roommates at UNC, Chapel Hill, the fall of
'50. This year was one of anticipation for her
too. In January she and two friends opened
their own travel agency. Together, they have
20 years of experience, and Mary Byrd does a
lot of traveling. She went to Santa Domingo
last November and to Spain in March. Her
son Mark was a freshman at Emory U. in
Atlanta, '78-'79, where he pledged Chi Phi.
Her oldest son. Brooks, was a sophomore at
Bucknell last year. For his January term, he
traveled to the Grand Canyon. Baja, the
desert and Alberquerque with a geology pro-
fessor and eight other students. They went
camping, back-packing and studied minerals
and rock formations. Juliette (12), who was in
the seventh grade, was at home. Mary Byrd's
husband Royce is head of the Maryland Na-
tional Capital Park and Planning, and he is
very supportive of her new role in life.
On Oct. 1, '78, Vice-Adm. Harry D. Train
II, Catherine Kinnear's husband, was pro-
moted to Admiral after being appointed
NATO's new Supreme Allied Commander
Atlantic. They are now living in Norfolk
after residing for two years in Italy, where
Harry served as commander of the sixth
fleet in the Mediterranean.
Joannie Holbrook Patton and George's
New Year's present was being transferred
back to Washington in early February after
George had completed his assignment as
Deputy Commanding General, VII Corps,
in Stuttgart, Germany. 1978 was an exciting
year for the Pattons. In March they went to
Tunisia with their son Ben, their brother-in-
law and his wife, and relived their brother-
in-law's experiences in the Kasserine area
where he had fought and had been captured.
In July Robert, a senior at Brown U., and
three friends navigated their own boat from
Passau, Germany, down the Danube River to
the Black Sea. They made frequent stops
ashore to learn about the communist coun-
tries they were passing. In November Joannie
and Benjamin (13) joined an excursion to
Israel at the very same time that the Wash-
ington peace talks were taking place. Mar-
garet, the eldest, opened a Montessori school
in Bridgewater, CT, and George, Jr. is con-
sidered a real employee asset at the Devereux
Foundation's West Chester campus. Robert,
having fulfilled requirements for a Biology
degree, was completing courses for an English
major looking toward a career in journalism.
Helen is a Theatre major at Walnut Hill
School in Massachusetts. She performed in
You Can 't Take It With You in Stuttgart last
summer. Joannie had a visit in Stuttgart with
Isolde Werhan and family and also Miss
Muncy. She stayed with Lysbeth Muncy while
visiting Robert at Brown U. in '78.
Anne Hoagland Plumb's daughter Anne,
who attends Colby College in Waterville,
ME, spent her fall term in Rome at Trinity
College in Hartford's Barbieri Program and
spent Christmas with the Patton family.
Anne's son Robert, a sophomore at Trinity
College this year, was selected Division III
ECAC Hockey Player of the Week. Anne is
busy with domestic responsibilities, running
a film distribution business, and supplement-
ing these with civic activities. She was in
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charge of staffing the annual hospital bou-
tique (150 workers) and was horticulture
chairman for the Garden Club of Princeton.
She plays tennis and paddle and escapes to
Cape Cod whenever possible.
Cynthia Batch Barns had a part-time job
as PR director for her tri-county school board
association in '78. She served on several state
school board committees and was president
of the tri-county association. Her second
son. Jon, did the summer tour that year with
Tony Randall in The Music Man.
Libby Stamp is a canal boat addict. In '77
she went down the Leeds-Liverpool canal
right over the Pennines. Her youngest sister
lives in Switzerland and she relaxes with
cross-country skiing when visiting. In the fall
of '77, Growing Out of Poverty, a book which
she edited and partially wrote, was published
by Oxford U. Press. It is a composite book of
case histories of agricultural projects in the
third world countries — their achievements
and problems. In '78 she trained a new staff
for the Information Department she heads.
October '78 Susan Otis Thompson became
an Associate Professor at Columbia after a
rough tenure hassle. In '77 her book, Ameri-
can Book Design and William Morris was
published and she has been editing a new
journal. Printing History. She is proudest of
her four-year-old step-grandson who is named
for her: Peter Otis Thompson. Husband Jack
is still teaching English at Stony Brook, and
they relax at Wading River on Long Island.
Pat Beach Thompson has moved from a
26-room house (the former Scribner Estate)
to a 90-year-old Victorian house (13 rooms)
which needed extensive repairs. In '78 her
daughter Melissa graduated cum laude.
National Merit Finalist, from Loomis Chaffee
before entering Cornell in the fall. Millie
O'Neal Palmer and her husband have re-
stored a Regency house in London, and
Margot LaRoque Lowry finished restoring
an 18th century inn and was involved in re-
storing a 1732 farmhouse built by Daniel
Boone's uncle — while living in it at the same
time! Margot's other interests are politics,
music, antiques and land planning.
Barbara McCullough Gilbert was in my
music theory class at SBC. I was completely
baffled when I learned she had perfect pitch
but I was really frustrated when I later found
out that she lived in Oberlin, OH. where we
were in May, '78, attending our third son's
graduation! Barbara enjoys reading (she
works two days a week in the Oberlin library,
which is superb), gardening, sewing and at-
tending concerts. Her oldest son is in busi-
ness in Roswell, GA (just outside of Atlanta's
city limits), and her youngest son is a violin-
ist with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra.
Her daughter is married and lives in Oberlin.
Cornelia Perkins Zinsser and Tom are living
in a townhouse in Washington but spend
weekends at Poplar Grove, VA. SBC is close-
by and they enjoy the movies, swimming, use
of the library, etc.
Carroll Morgan Legge has settled back into
Baltimore life. In '78 her oldest daughter.
Alison, who was attending Trinity College
in Hartford. CT, had a job as resident assis-
tant in a freshman dorm and was also man-
ager of the male soccer team. Carroll plays
tennis; and this past year she was co-editor
for the mother's association newspaper at
Garrison Forest School and chairman of her
garden club flower show. In October '78 she
started working (volunteer) as a counselor at
the Baltimore office of New Directions for
Women. The big family interest is boats; they
have a yacht on the Chesapeake and have
cruised as far north as Nantucket and as far
south as Norfolk.
Donna Reese Godwin's third son, Michael,
was the first recipient of an award to the top
graduate of the School of Social Work, U.
of Miss, in '78. He was on the Chancellor's
Honor Roll and is working with Mananatha
in Auburn. AL. Her daughter Dana was a
Plan II Honors sophomore at the U. of Texas,
Austin, in '78. Daughter Mary, class of '79 at
the U. of Miss., was getting her degree in
recreational leadership. Her youngest son,
Donald, is primarily interested in soccer.
Katie Babcock Mountcastle's son Ken, Jr.,
was team captain and All-New England la-
crosse at Hotchkiss, where he graduated in
June '78.
Last fall before moving to Oklahoma. Joan
Crouse Link was coordinator of the '78
World Three-Day Event Championships at
the Kentucky Horse Park — the first time this
event has been held in the U.S. Over 185.000
people attended.
Linda Brackett Mendelson went on a five-
day bicycling trip with her husband in Ver-
mont last August. She has a new job working
at George Washington U. Hospital as a
psychiatric social worker. Nancy Hamel Clark
exercises at the Y every day and Blake also
exercises and is well.
Sally Anderson Jones loves Atlanta and
her work at Dupont. She plays tennis and has
great fun white water rafting. On the week-
ends she works at the Atlanta Botanical Gar-
dens. Mary Bailey Izard is Vice President
and on the Board of Directors of the Gardens
and is most enthusiastic about the project,
63 acres located in the center of Atlanta and
consisting of a mature hardwood forest and a
series of demonstration gardens. Mary was
written up in the January issue of the Atlanta
Junior League magazine. Elizabeth Sprague
visited Mary at her cottage in Highlands.
NC, last summer. Husband Jack was ap-
pointed by President Carter to a commission
to study anti-trust laws and to make recom-
mendations for their revision.
Nancy Messick Ray's husband has been
transferred by IRS to Philadelphia. Their
eldest child applied for early acceptance to
Mt. Holyoke. Anne Pope Wells' oldest son,
Cal, graduated from Ole Miss Law School in
'78 and is now in practice with his dad. John
was at Dartmouth Business School studying
for his M.B.A.; Bill was a sophomore at Ole
Miss; and Anne, a 9th gTader, was at home.
Mary Barcus Hunter and her husband
moved into a new house which they were
building the first part of '79. Their oldest son.
Bare, announced his engagement at Thanks-
giving in Bryn Mawr. Son Tom, a freshman
at W and L, was there and also Grace DeLong
Einsel. Grace has a married son, Harry, III
(24), living in Little Rock, AR. He is a chem-
ical engineer with Reynolds Metals. Fred (19)
is majoring in food science at NC State. Grace
has a travel agency in Roanoke Rapids and
does civic work as well.
Trudy Kelly Morron also had a new address
in 1979. She has an M.A. in English Litera-
ture and in '78 was education coordinator
and tutor for young people at Silver Hill. Her
middle daughter is working towards her
Ph.D. in Chicago and her oldest daughter
(with two children) is getting her degree in
early childhood reading disabilities. (I made
a mistake in '78 Christmas Newsletter). Bar-
bara Bird Baker is working as a parent coun-
selor in a private school for children with
learning disabilities. Last summer she re-
laxed on her farm in Wellingford, VT.
Frances Street and Gordon Smith are very
involved with fund raising for private schools.
She has been to a development workshop for
independent schools and, while she is solici-
ting for SBC, Gordon's main interest is in
McCallie.
Mary Lois Miller Carroll and her son had
dinner in Kitchie Roseberry Ewald's beauti-
ful home in Ivy while traveling in Virginia.
Kitchie is very busy with her gift shop called
"The Very Thing" which also has a mail order
catalogue that is mailed nationally. Kitchie's
picture was in the November 1978 issue of
Town and Country.
Last October Martha Yost Ridenour was
still working on rental property which had
been destroyed in the '77 flood. Her husband
Doug was occupied with plans for a branch
bank. Sandra Zelie Mulinos and husband
Steve have become interested in real estate
investments outside their normal occupations.
Betty New Matthews sells real estate and has
extended an invitation for the Atlanta con-
tingent and Leila Booth Morris, Columbus,
GA, to have our annual fall get-together in
Macon, GA, this year. Leila is president of
the Georgia Chapter, Embroiders Guild of
America, 1978-1980. She works occasionally
hanging wallpaper professionally and also
fills in at a gift shop. Husband Jim is retired;
he's in real estate, teaches flying and has a
plane of his own that he leases to a local fly-
ing club. Nancy Hinton Russell is most happy
with her part-time job at Wallpaper Atlanta.
She sells wallpaper rather than hanging it!
In July '78 it was announced that Janis
Thomas Hawk, associate director of institu-
tional relations at the U. of Ala. in Birming-
ham, became the 17th public relations practi-
tioner in the state to be professionally ac-
credited by the Public Relations Society of
America — the highest recognition of profes-
sional competence bestowed upon a member
of PRSA. She qualified for membership by
successfully completing a written and oral
exam testing her knowledge and competency
in the practice of public relations. The class
of '52 also salutes you, Janis!
Through the Draco Foundation in Indepen-
dence, CA, I learned that Irene Marik had
been ill in '78; therefore, she had made no
recordings. She is well now and has begun
practicing and teaching again.
Please keep in touch as the well runneth
dry again. I appreciate all of your cards and
letters, and if you did not take the time to
reply, there would be no newsletter or class
notes. If you ever are in Atlanta, do call me at
355-6074. There are lots of Thomas John-
sons in the phone book!
1956
Secretary
Betsy Meade Hastings (Mrs. Donald M..
Jr.), Rt. 1, Cox Rd., Woodstock. GA 30188 .
Marriages
Stephanie Smith Settle to David F. Mackie.
Peggy Anne Rogers to Arch M. Brown.
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A Cut Above the Usual:
Estelle 5m c/a/re Farrar '40
Since her sophomore year when she took 80 cuts in
Spanish II, Estelle (Tell) Farrar has come a long
way. One of the country's experts on cut glass, she
lectures, writes and gives slide shows on Investing in
American Glass, The Heyday of American Fine Glass,
The Historical Background of American Cut Glass, The
Cut Glass of Corning. Her articles appear in Antiques
Magazine; Farrar Books published H.P. Sinclaire,
Glassmaker and this year Crown publishes The Com-
plete Cut and Engraved Glass of Corning by Tell and
Coming's Associate Curator Jane Spillman. The two of
them prepare major exhibits for Corning; one exhibit
appeared in the Toledo Museum of Art last year.
"My years of research," writes Tell, "have taught me
that American cut glass led the world from about 1880-
1910. Today American glass prices are higher than
prices from France, England or Bohemia and rightly so.
The absolutely colorless glass, exemplified by Steuben,
is an American specialty and has never been surpassed.
"For decades high American wages attracted the best
European cutters; good pay also brought about the
demise of the American industry: America could sur-
pass the best that Europe could produce, but never
match European prices. Colorless lead crystal can be
made in many countries. The complexity of design and
'mass of diamonds' brilliance of the earlier American
cuttings, however, will probably never again be made in
quantity because of today's wage scales."
Tell's Sweet Briar roommate Mildred Moon Monta-
gue '40 of Chattanooga invited her to speak at the Hous-
ton Antique Museum last spring. The Chattanooga
News-Free Press covered the lecture so well that we
picked up the copy by staff writer Margaret Kelley, who
wrote in part:
The years between 1800-1905 are called the Brilliant
Period when some 200 cutting houses were open. Glass
made during this period is among the most prized. . .
Estelle Farrar of New York is the granddaughter of the
man who was one of the principles in the Corning Glass
Works, the firm that made many of the finest "blanks"
(uncut pieces) for the cutters. Because of the enormous
increase in the price of making new pieces of cut and
engraved glass and because of the fine quality of many
older pieces, glass collectors abound.
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A a an example of how the cost has increased, Mrs.
Farrar showed a slide of one fine old piece esti-
mated to have taken 700 to 800 hours to produce. At
current costs — $10 or more an hour for glass engravers,
plus other expenses that push the final price up to four
times that amount — modern glass of exceptional quality
is prohibitive to most people. The lovely old pieces are
still available for much less; therefore, cut and engraved
glass is "a great investment for appreciation."
Among the finer things produced in recent years is
a piece for sale at Steuben for $63,000. "This is at con-
siderable loss to the company," said Mrs. Farrar, "since
the actual worth is closer to $125,000."
. . .In 1887 rock crystal engraving became a popular
style. Intaglio or pictorial cutting done with a stone
wheel came into the market around 1930. Some pieces
were cut by the stone wheel and trimmed with a copper
wheel. Copper wheel engraving makes smaller and more
intricate lines, and where stone wheel engraving was
measured in hours, copper engraving took weeks
and even years. Some cut glass items were novelties,
such as the cut glass electric light bulbs of the late 19th
c. when electricity was new. Electricity alone meant
much to cutters, who had done their work by kerosene
or gas lanterns.
During the Brilliant Period, cut glass was in such de-
mand that new pieces appeared for the store trade. These
pieces had wide swaths cut into the designs to make them
cheaper for the new market. Pressed glass was another
development that helped meet the demand. The mania
for cut glass became so great that a dentist in Corning
hired cutters to work in his barn. It was common for
people to buy blanks and take them to engravers.
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Tell Farrar '40 is shown (left) with a collection of American cut glass. Her new
book (written in collaboration with Jane Shadel Spillman) is currently being adver-
tised by Crown Publishers with the tag "FIRST EDITION SOLD OUT." Some ex-
amples of American glass are shown in three photographs below, left to right and
downward: A costly rarity is the Sinclaire & Co. clock, twelve inches high; its pre-
sent owner is not known. The two Sinclaire goblets are (left) Engraving 105 and
Puniies & Prism, both in Tell Farrar's collection. The Sinclaire plate is cut in the
Saturn design; it is one of TelPs pieces which was shown in the 1977 Corning
Museum of Glass exhibit.
From that period some very fine work was done,
engraving being so deep you can put your little
finger into the groove. Names from this era include Dor-
flinger, Hawkes, Hoare. Fritchie, Nitsche, Steuben,
Libby and of course, Sinclaire.
Good cut and engraved glass from America's hey-
day — from the mid- 18th c. to the mid- 19th — is still
available in antique shops and especially at estate sales,
which can be a gold mine if you know what you're look-
ing for, Mrs. Farrar said.
Her advice to collectors is to subscribe to a hobbies
magazine on the subject and "train your eye" to know
what is good. Good glass should have clarity "like a
diamond" with no black or pink tinge. Even some pieces
with chips can be bargains "if the flaw can be polished
out."
Estelle Farrar is currently working on a commissioned
article about cut glass for major world's fairs. "My
study of American glass is a fascinating and rewarding
avocation. One of my chief interests is sharing my knowl-
edge with others."
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Your responses have been great again, and
I appreciate them. Our farthest-away class-
mate, Ann Train Ross, writes from Middle-
sex, England, that her husband John is now
building a Dental Teaching Hospital in Hong
Kong and has opened an office there. She
will follow him out there in September 1979.
They will keep their house in Harefield and
plan frequent trips home for probably 4 or
5 years. Their son Richard starts at Oxford
U. next October, and Patricia and Alison will
finish school as boarders. All the children
will come to Hong Kong for holidays. Ann
hopes to visit the U.S. soon.
Next farthest is Lee Chang Crozier in
Novate CA. She and Al had a December re-
union with his family in Florida after 10
years. Her parents have just moved to Novato
and their children love having grandparents
only a mile away. Their daughter Diana will
enter U.C. Davis in the fall; she, Linda (15)
and Daniel (9) are all three accomplished
skiiers. Lee sings with a trio, and is helping
design and create costumes for the Music
Association's spring production of The Merry
Widow.
Debby Brown Stalker would love to see any
alumnae visitors to Detroit. Their son Peter
III completed his "year off" from Princeton
(loved his job at Baker-Botts in Houston) and
returned to Princeton in February. Deb, a
senior at Exeter, is accepted under early
action at Princeton. Deb's closest friend
there is a child of a Sorbonne friend of Peter
and Debby's! Marsh is in 7th grade.
Jeannie Applequist Bascom is in Aspen
with a fine art gallery. Gallery 400. Snowy,
beautiful Christmas winter weather there.
She's doing lots of singing, gospel and spiri-
tual, and is thinking of returning to Africa
on a goodwill folk-gospel tour with a group
of musicians and dancers. She's doing a TV
series entitled Art Now, has 4 children whom
she treasurers, is a single parent living in an
old partially-restored miner's home (ca. 1889).
"Life is rich and full and the Lord's blessings
abound. I'd love to see any old friends."
Nancie Howe Entenmann had a great time
at the Girl Scout National Convention in
Denver last October. She is planning to relax
next year with her Council presidency term
completed, and "get gorgeous for our 25th!"
Becky is playing keyboard in school jazz band
and much violin. She will be touring colleges
this spring and Nancie wishes SBC had an
orchestra. Dirk is happy at Michigan.
Peggy Pattillo Beckham is beginning her
third year on the Abilene school board and
awaiting the shock waves from Proposition
13! Her oldest two children are in Texas U.;
the youngest two are still at home.
Changes in address cards indicate two new
marriages among classmates. Stephanie
Smith Settle was recorded in July 1978 to be
Mrs. David F. Mackie, living in Houston,
TX. And Peggy Anne Rogers was recorded in
April 1978 to be Mrs. Arch M. Brown, Vir-
ginia Beach, VA. Much happiness to both
these girls! Let us hear about your lives.
Nancy Ettinger Minor coordinated the
summer campership program last spring for
the anti-poverty agency she works for. She
now has finished six hours of A's toward her
college degree, jogs daily, plays tennis, and
occasionally raises miniature dachshunds.
Marlene Etienne Engdahl has moved from
Foxboro, MA, to Guilford, CT, though I have
no news from her. Corky Lauter Murray and
family spent another summer at Shelter
Island, off Long Island, with lots of boating,
tennis and golf. Laura is now a freshman at
Dartmouth, Bob has just gotten his driver's
license, and Caroline is 10. Corky's other
interests are "Women's Club, Girl Scouts,
tennis, and (get this!) aerobic dancing — the
greatest!"
Anne Marie Jacobson Shramko is in her
sixth year teaching 6th grade history and
literature in a private school near Holmdel,
NJ. Their daughter Carol graduated from
Colgate in June, Paul is in his third year at
Georgia Teeh, and Keith is a high school
senior playing lots of tennis to improve his
ranking in the E.T.A. Their family discovered
Maine last summer and hope to spend much
of this summer on Mt. Desert Island, off
the Maine coast. She says the huge vegetable
garden they usually have might be neglected.
This year there are three seniors in Barbara
Bernhard MacLea's family. Their oldest
daughter. Ginger, is a senior at Trinity Col-
lege in Hartford; their youngest, Sally, is a
senior at Friends School in Baltimore; and
Barbara is a senior at Towson State University
in Baltimore, majoring in Health Science.
Parksie Carroll Mulholland came to
Atlanta with Jack for a medical meeting and
had a great time with Carolyn Dickinson
Tynes, whom Parksie says "would still do
justice to the May Court." Their daughter
Randie has transferred from Sweet Briar to
co-ed Denison. Their son David, a high school
senior, is considering Denison as well as other
Southern colleges. ("We may be close to the
Mason-Dixon line, but the Southern genes
seem to predominate.") Jeff is 15. Parksie is
heavily involved in gardening, flower show
judging, lecturing a little, and seeking more
horticultural education. She is also playing
paddle tennis in 10 degree weather.
Word come from Louisville. KY, that Macie
Clay Nichols was elected vice-president of
the Louisville Zoological Society at the Octo-
ber board meeting. Mary Alice Major Dun-
can is busy in Hopkinsville with Homemakers
Club. Literary Club and church deacon duties.
Graham has his own air charter business.
Their son Bill is at Centre College, Rives is
a U.S. Air Force Academy freshman, and
Andrea is a varsity cheerleader at home.
Julie Jackson Welch is just finishing up her
first commercial decorating job, which she
enjoyed greatly. She went to Puerto Rico with
friends in January and skiing in Vail in
March. She was hoping to see Mary Ann
Hicklin Quarngesser in February when she
brought one of her girls to W. Va. U.
Two more address changes: as of June 1978,
Joan Roberts Slattery has moved from
Spokane, WA, to Cupertino, CA; Kay New-
man Yonge has moved from Austin, TX, to
Marina Del Ray, CA, as of February 1979.
Jane Slack Engleby writes: "This time I do
have news. After five years of widowhood I
am marrying again — on April 14. My hus-
band-to-be is Dennis Sigloh, a resident of
Greenwich, CT, and marketing manager with
I.B.M. I hate to leave Virginia, but look for-
ward to a new 'passage.' I plan continued
studies and hope to write a series of English
grammar books. My children are now fresh-
man, sophomore, junior and senior in high
school." Much happiness to Jane!
Jane Black Clark's daughter Alden is work-
ing in a Washington law firm as a paralegal.
Janie is a Sweet Briar senior who hates for her
four years to be ending. Jane and David had
a great time at Parents' Weekend, which Janie
was co-chairman of. and saw the Senior Play,
Toad of Toad Hall. Ashby, a 10th grader,
plays basketball and softball. Jane was on
the Search Committee which selected a fine
new minister for Good Shepherd Episcopal
Church. Jane and David were in Sanibel
Island, FL. in March.
Kitty Harrison has moved from Austin.
TX, to Chapel Hill, NC, as of April 1978.
Welcome East, Kitty!
Frances Gilbert Browne and Herb are just
beginning to dig out from under a remodeling
which disturbed all but three of their rooms.
She says sharing the house with carpenters is
not ideal. Howard is a happy Davidson fresh-
man, Gilbert is looking at colleges and play-
ing lots of tennis, and Paul is in 7th grade and
enjoying life. They went skiing during
Christmas vacation. Ann Greer Adams was
Gilbert's second mother when he played a
Southern tournament in Mobile — she and
her whole family took him in. "He came away
convinced that the good life is in Alabama!"
Also from Charlotte, Frances Shannon-
house Clardy writes that their son Jim grad-
uated from Episcopal High last year and is a
freshman at UNC, and their daughter Frances
is a sophomore at Chatham Hall.
Ann Stevens Allen was at Sweet Briar in
the fall for a Riding Alumnae Weekend.
Forty alumnae arrived for a wonderful week-
end of riding, beagling and a pace event.
Ann spent the night in the dorm with her
freshman daughter Dansie and went to a
W & L fraternity party, being introduced to
all as Dansie's cousin. Dansie has organized
a Riflery Club at SB. a sport she learned at
summer camp, and 35 girls have joined up.
Ann hunts regularly at Tryon. NC, is re-
tired from the Spartanburg Arts Council, and
is sculpting portrait heads for friends.
Marguerite Geer Wellborn says this seems
to be their year of decisions, with one boy
starting college and another starting kinder-
garten in the fall! Other than usual activities
of a family with four boys (17, 14, 11, and 5),
she and Marshall spend many volunteer hours
working for the Juvenile Diabetes Founda-
tion, raising funds for research in hopes of
finding a cure for diabetes.
In Birmingham, Carolyn Dickinson Tynes
says her husband Bayard and the boys
(Bayard, Jr., junior at Sewanee; Ingram,
freshman at Wake Forest; and Norman, 14)
are busy developing 500 acres and a hunt
club. Her daughter Cary, a blonde, loves
sports, especially baseball. After three boys,
Carolyn finds Girls' Little League a blowf
She is now a licensed Landscape Designer
and is having lots of fun working. She is also
happy to see the increased SBC Alumnae
activity in Birmingham.
Last February, Don and his father became
involved in a new mail-order company which
they call Don Hastings' Southern Gardening/
Southern Garden Company, specializing in
vegetable seeds and garden accessories. If
any of you want a catalog with very few pic-
tures but jam-packed with information on
how to grow vegetables in the South, let me
know and I'll send you one. It's great fun
watching it grow solidly on their fine horticul-
tural reputations. I am a teaching assistant in
the 3rd gt-ade this year (my favorite, since that
is what I once taught) at Lovett. Don, 10, and
Chris, 7, are good soccer players. Our greatest
gardening success last summer was raising
louffa gourds for Christmas presents as
sponges. I hope to see Lou Galleher Coldwell
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and the Richmond girls at spring vacation.
Come lie on our floating dock this summer.
We have three years now to get ready for
our 25th!
1960
Secretary
Janet Holmes Delaney (Mrs. Stephen C), 318
Brookvale, Smoke Rise, Kinnelon. NJ 07405
Fund Agent
Tucky McFall Ziebold (Mrs. John F.), 5
Hunter Point Rd.. Charleston, WV 25314
This year we have two mystery guests for
me to try to identify — one more than last
year. Please, Ladies, sign your cards with
maiden and surnames. Thanks to Shirley Hay-
man Sudduth for identifying herself as last
year's unidentified correspondent. She and
husband John, a procurement manager for
Valley Grain Products, a Mexican food pro-
ducts company, have moved to California.
Their three children, Bob, 19; Linda, 18; and
Peter, 16, are pursuing their educations —
with time out for the whole family to spend
Christmas in Hawaii. Shirley is involved with
volunteer work for the community hospital
and her church.
From Texas, Maline Gilbert McCalla writes
that she has been giving SBC publicity by
wearing her blazer, which she unearthed
from a long-forgotten corner. Lee Cullum
Clark, as Vice President for Program De-
velopment and Production of the Public Tele-
vision Station in Dallas, has worked on an
international documentary consortium with
public broadcasters in six nations, each con-
tributing two documentaries on current af-
fairs, arts, and sciences to form a series of
twelve programs. Her other important pro-
ject this year was mounting a seven-show
series, originating from San Francisco, Dallas,
Chicago. South Carolina, and New York, to
cover the Congressional elections in the fall.
Liz Few Penfield and husband "Thorny"
spent Christmas skiing in Colorado. Liz has
been touring around the country giving
speeches on the so-called literary crisis and
coming home to work on remodeling an old
New Orleans house. Carol Ann Kolakowski
Nalewaik is teaching algebra and geometry
in an all-boys high school in New Orleans.
Her husband Jerry is District Production
Geologist in Ethan Harvey's office.
Barbara Bell Peterson, husband Ed, and
their three children visited SBC in July for the
first time in 20 years, with a visit to her former
roommate Jane Ellis Covington en route. Nina
Wilkerson Bugg, husband and two sons stayed
with Margot McKee in New York last fall
and toured Manhattan from one end to the
other. Linda Sims Grady is still teaching at
Westminster Academy, where her two chil-
dren attend school. Daughter Anna graduates
in May and has been accepted under the early
decision plan at Furman U.
Dorothy Westby Campaigne has moved to
Fort Lauderdale, FL, where her husband
Jonathan has lived. She completed her M.F.A.
at Rhode Island School of Design in litho-
graphy and obtained her private pilot license
in November. Dottie is working toward the
commerical and instrument licenses. Mollie
McDonald Brasfield and her children moved
to Charlotte, NC in June 1978. She is teach-
ing part time at Winthrop College in Rock
Hill, SC, and says her Master's work at U.Va.
has come in handy. Alice Jones Torbett has
moved to Knoxville, where husband David has
a new job as administrative law judge for the
Dept. of Interior. While still in Virginia, Alice
had several articles in area publications and
plans to continue free-lance writing.
In Virginia, Elizabeth Meade Howard con-
tinues teaching journalism at U.Va. Pres-
ently she is editing the Darden Business
School's magazine, focusing the issue on
women in management. Angie Schmidlapp
Stephens, who moved to Weems, VA, five
years ago with husband Brad and son Jeff,
18, opened a boutique in White Stone which
is flourishing. They recently bought an old
house in Irvington, adjacent to the Tides Inn,
which they are in the process of remodeling.
Patti Powell Pusey is working part time as
volunteer coordinator for a 105-acre park in
Richmond. She and one of her three children
are riding weekly. Anita Perrin Grymes is
teaching fifth grade at Collegiate, substituting
for a semester for a teacher on sabbatical.
She enjoyed a visit from Margot Saur Meyer
during the summer while Margot's children
were at a swim camp in Charlottesville. Jane
Ellis Covington of necessity spent a very quiet
fall when a pinched nerve in her neck forced
her to bed. Jane says it was a wonderful op-
portunity to catch up on her reading.
Judy Cowen Jones went to London in
November and saw the Wightman Cup played.
Her husband Mac is building another shop-
ping center near Harrisonburg, VA. Judy's
daughters Debbie and Allison represented
Shenandoah Farms at a recent horse show
and won the team championship against
V.P.I, and Stuart Hall. Barbara Beam Den-
nison opened an art consulting business last
January, and she continues to paint and ex-
hibit in a local gallery.
Patricia Russell Binnie informs me that
last year's news of her was four years old.
Sorry, Pat, someone goofed! Her son James
is four years old, not newly born last year. Ann
Weingart Teig is currently living in Norway,
where she is teaching violin as a "re-schooled
biologist" in community music schools. Janet
Maynard Henderson, living in England, re-
ports that she is still riding and has been com-
peting in dressage events with two horses.
I would like to share a card from Betsy
Buechner Morris with you verbatim, as she
surely qualifies as the Erma Bombeck of the
Class of '60. "Your request for news arrived
as Chrissy was agonizing about what to wear
above the diapers that she is wearing as Baby
New Year in the 3rd gTade play. Peter, 12, was
showing off with pride the cast on his arm for
his broken hand that he got from hitting his
brother on the head. We were all very relieved
that Tom, 13, was home, having spent much
of Thanksgiving lost in the Marblehead, MA,
storm sewers!"
Sue Styer Ericksen reports that she at-
tended SBC's first riding reunion last fall and
was suitably impressed with the new riding
facilities. Lucy Martin Gianino is trying to
keep up with children's schedules of Gemima,
8'/i; Antonia, 5V2; and Gian-Murray, 9 mos.,
while concentrating her own career currently
on commercials and a film done in Alabama
— Rape and Rape Prevention. Husband
Jack is stage managing John Currie's "ice
dancing."
Nancy Corson Carringer will receive her
Master's in Student Personnel and Guidance
in the spring. She has begun a second career
in horse breeding, with the first foal born last
spring. Husband Don is a media specialist in
an elementary school while Nancy teaches in
high school as an experimental learning co-
ordinator. Margot Saur Meyer's daughter
Jenny, 10, won the state title in the 100-meter
butterfly this past summer in the N. J. Jr.
Olympics. Her husband Bob is now a mem-
ber of the N. J. Bar, practicing law in Newark
and maintaining his real estate business as
well.
I spent a busy summer taking my son Tom,
17, South to visit colleges prior to his apply-
ing in the fall. He was elected to Who's Who
in American High Schools at the end of his
junior year, as well as making All-Conference
Baseball Team as a shortstop. We visited with
Jane Ellis Covington on our trip, looking
at the U. of Richmond on our way through to
North Carolina. We also stopped at Sweet
Briar so Tom could see my alma mater, since
he was applying to W&L and I wanted him to
know there are females close at hand! It de-
finitely makes one aware of the aging process
when one is looking at colleges as the mother
of a prospective student.
My thanks to all of you who responded.
Let's hear from more of you next time!
1964
Secretary
Marshall Metcalf Seymour (Mrs. Jack M.,
Jr.), 4407 N. 35th St., Arlington, VA 22207
Fund Agent
Mary Duer Leach (Mrs. Walter R.). 1595
Layfayette Rd., Gladwyne. PA 19035
Marriages
Susan Shierling Riegel to Frank C. Harding,
Jr., Oct. 7, 1978.
Births
To Susan Dwelle Baxter, a daughter. Lucy
Marshall Baxter, Feb. 17, 1978.
To Mary Waties Pope Kennedy, 3rd child,
1st daughter, Mary Sumter Waties Kennedy,
May 30, 1978.
To Dona Van Arsdale Jones. 1st child, Emily
Baker Jones, March 27, 1978.
It hardly seems possible that we were pre-
paring for "comps" this time 15 years ago.
Many events have taken place in the mean-
time, and it will be fun to catch up on all the
details in May. I hope all of you are coming.
By the time you read this, of course, our
famous fifteenth will have taken place.
My year was typical, with my split per-
sonality leading me into both design (doing
it) and antiques (researching it) courses: I've
continued teaching art on and off and will also
be "subbing" for the French teacher this
spring. The boys are doing the usual things
at school, plus French, art at the Corcoran
Gallery, and riding. Peter was in a horse show
at the Jr. Equitation School here which bene-
fited the Littauer Chair at SBC! We are now
switching gears: buying a larger house and
preparing for our next post at the American
Embassy. Bonn. We'll be a little nostalgic
for the simpler, but surely more difficult life
in E. Europe, as well as for the highly com-
plicated and somewhat frantic American
scene. Perhaps W. Europe is a happy medium.
I've had the pleasure of several mini-re-
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unions this year, with Hedi Haug White in
NYC in May, and again here in June, when
she brought Tim (5) down. Tim, by the way,
was led astray by my Randle who taught him
how to climb trees at 7 a.m., but not how to
get down! Hedi writes that the three Whites
have taken up skiing and rented a condomin-
ium in Vermont for a week. She works part-
time for a company that develops manage-
ment/technical seminars and conferences.
Hedi has seen Ashton Barfield, M.D., who is
at the Population Council's Center for Bio-
medical Research and who was quoted last
summer in the London Observer on the sub-
ject of genetic research in the U.S.
Lib Kopper Schollaert and 1 bumped into
each other often at the pool. At last report
she was leaving her PTA-sponsored French
teaching position for one at Marymount
Junior School.
Phone conversations with Gail Rolhrock
Trozzo and Jackie Nicholson Wysong indicate
they are thriving in Alexandria. VA.
Jane Bradley Wheeler writes she had a
mini-reunion in Hilton Head, SC, with Harriet
Houston Shaffer, Susan Bronson Croft. Susan
Dwelle Baxter, and Margaret Street Wilson.
Susan Bronson's house-renovating company,
Residential Updaters, Inc., is still going
strong.
Nan Brooke Williams sent a newspaper
article describing her 4th child's birth at
home in 1976. Nan is now enrolled at Jack-
sonville State U., working on an M.A. in
piano.
V.M. Del Greco Galgano, "disgustingly
enthusiastic" as usual, reports she, Mike, and
the children are in Chapel Hill for the year,
but that they will spend 10 days in London in
March.
In Charlottesville, Barbara Doty Miller
has a job as Assistant Regional Director for
Joint Action in Community Service, an organi-
zation which recruits, trains, and provides
support for volunteers in local communities
who serve as advisors to ex -Job Corpsmen re-
turning home or relocating.
Dootsie Duer Leach rejoices in her busy,
happy year in her new home, as vice presi-
dent of the city YWCA Board of Directors,
and as a member of the Auxiliary Board at
Children's Hospital of the Jr. League. She
is looking forward to turning the fund agent
books over to a new volunteer. Thank you,
Doots, for doing such a good job!
Judy Dunn Spangenberg has written two
more children's books, both illustrated by
her photographer mother, Phoebe Pierson
Dunn '36!
Alice Fates Stewart regrets missing reunion
as they will be going to a music festival, an
annual wedding anniversary celebration.
Alice continues to teach history and Dick
to teach law. The 1979-80 academic year will
be spent at Berkeley.
Susie Glasgow Brown and husband are
busy running their own real estate company,
Harpeth Co., and keeping up with the chil-
dren 5, 9, and 11.
Nancy Hall Green is up to her eyebrows as
president of the Atlanta Jr. League. She hopes
to make reunion, but may have a conflicit
with League business.
Joan Hulley Liverman is working in a
nearby mental health clinic as a consultant,
while husband Phillip is with the Dept. of
Nephrology at UVA.
At last report Kathy Hsu Jeong was en-
joying her house in Oakland and work at
U.C. Medical Center in San Francisco.
Caroline Keller Gilliland is touting her
new menu cookbook, Louisiana Entertains,
benefiting the Rapides Symphony Orchestra.
It can be ordered from her or through the
SBC bookstore.
Vera LeCraw Carvaillos writes from Paris
where she and Philippe sell, import, and
export scientific -instruments. Patricia is 9Vi,
and Jean-Philippe (2'/2> chatters in French and
English. Vera's mother will be visiting them at
Mardi Gras time.
New Yorkers take note: Linda Lee Mc-
Andrew will be in two dance concerts this
spring: one took place April 27th and 28th.
"Linda Lee McAndrew Dances Solos" at
the Dance Gallery 14th St. and 2nd Ave.,
and she'll dance June 7- 10th with Linda
Diamond & Co. at the Theatre of Riverside
Church.
Kate Roy Massie Christian is busy heading
her church's women's group. She and Dixon
had two great trips up the. Maine coast and
to Fisher's Island, NY, last year. This winter
they'll spend three months in Key Biscayne.
FL.
Meanwhile, in the other corner of the U.S.,
Tuck Mattern Harvey and husband were plan-
ning to spend a month touring Alaska in
their motor home. She was hoping they'd still
be speaking after the trip.
Pemmie Mercur Cleveland and John are
still in Quito, Ecuador, although have man-
aged trips to Italy and the U.S. John plans
to take a leave of absence from the Foreign
Service to get his M.B.A. They've bought a
house in Bethlehem, PA, and are thinking
seriously of settling down there.
Nancy Newell Lennon reports that Rich
has been elected to the American Eye Study
Club. She has worked with him on laser re-
search and accompanied him to present a
paper in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
Dottie Norris Schipper is ecstatic over
their new house cum darkroom. Her photo-
graphy business is booming — everything
from portraits to weddings, and now aerials,
with Dottie as pilot!
Lynda Overly Levengood and her archi-
tect husband are renovating a Victorian
town house in the historic preservation dis-
trict of Lancaster. She's involved with the
Books City Historical Society as a member of
the council and as a docent.
Mary Peeples de Vries and Cory have
bought a 15th floor condominium in Ft.
Lauderdale. Mary is decorating yachts, but
hopes to retire to paint.
Rosamond Sample Brown is heading south
to Barksdale Air Force Base in Shrevesport,
LA, only 90 miles from her parents. Rosa-
mond's been busy with substituting, military
obligations, and her family.
Leezee Scott Porter not only runs two busi-
nesses in Georgetown, but is a director of the
1st nationally chartered women's bank, the
Women's National Bank (of Washington).
Sue Shierling Riegel married in October,
moved to Del Mar, and gave up teaching.
She has started work for Northrop as a sys-
tems analyst. Tanya is 16. Sue's husband
Frank is a commercial loan officer for a large
S. & L. in town.
Lynne Smith Crow is busy with car pooling
to nursery school (Margaret, 4'/2>, Indian
Guides (Sandy, 7), and Cub Scouts (David, 8).
To get away from it all, Lynne accompanies
Bill to conventions, this year in Houston.
Biloxi, and New Orleans.
Kathleen Stevenson Turner and Bill took
a sabbatical to London for a year where he
did pediatric urology at the Hospital for Sick
Children. While in London, Kathleen spent
some time with Nancy Lynah Stebbing, and
with Miss Em Whaley Balentine whose hus-
band was on sabbatical in Paris.
Penny Writer Theis wanted an ad in the
Alumnae Magazine: "Wanted: Penny's room-
mates for reunion!" I know a lot of us echoed
her feelings!
Thank you all for your notes the past three
years. I hope more will write. Please don't be
intimidated, you silent Sweets, by the suc-
cessful stories of your classmates. As Hedi
so aptly put it, "I've had a damned good
year, totally ho hum for the class notes but
maybe worthy of headlines for all of us!"
1968
Secretary
Frances Kirven Morse (Mrs. John A.), 57 Elm-
hurst Rd., Newton, MA 02158
Fund Agent
Pembroke Herbert Kyle (Mrs. William). 26
Canterbury Hill, Topsfield, MA 01983
Births
Margaret Lily to Barbara Baur and Charlie
Dunlop, Aug. 1977.
Edward Morgan and William Earl to Dianne
Hunt and Clarence Williams, Dec. 8, 1977.
Elizabeth Kathryn to Charlotte Hummel and
Howard Schwartzman, Mar. 5, 1978.
Patrick John to Jennie Lyons and John
Fogarty, Apr. 23, 1978.
Anne McKenzie to Jeanne Forsyth and Ben
Powell. July 17, 1978.
Edward Hunter to Carter Hunter and Ed
Hopkins, Sept. 15,1978.
Katerina Vanessa to July Harbottle and Leo
Maselli.Nov. 26, 1978.
Colin Christopher to Amy Thompson and
Peter McCandless, Dec. 18, 1978.
Once again greetings from the frozen North!
It's nasty cold here as I write this, but I
cherish the warm memories of our fantastic
10th Class Reunion last May! The pleasant
thoughts of our 36 classmates, 24 husbands,
and 4 children basking in the glorious sun-
shine of a spring weekend in Virginia keep
me motivated while I shovel snow!
Adaline Allen Shinkle, when not chasing
toddler Whitney, is employed as a supervisor
of the education department of a private
child guidance clinic, and last May coordi-
nated an exciting state conference on par-
enting. Ann Banks Herrod, husband Hank,
and two kids, Coleman and Ashley, are busy
settling into their new home in Memphis.
Hank is working for the U. of Tenn. Medical
School.
Barbara Baur Dunlop brought her third
daughter into the world in spite of breaking
her right elbow the day before Lily was born!
She and crew have moved into a great new
house. Brenda Darden Kineaid is currently
on leave-of-absence from her high school
teaching job and is managing her husband
and four children — 8, 6, 2'/i, and baby!
Frances de Saussure Meade wrote to ask
for the address of Betsy Wolfe, but she is
"lost" in Alumnae Office records.
Jeanne Forsyth Powell, husband Ben, and
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three kids have just moved from Utah to
Mobile, AL. Ben is in a group medical prac-
tice there, covering several hospitals. They
miss the mountains in Utah but are enjoying
being close to both their families. Jeanne was
the star disco dancer at our reunion, even
though TA months pregnant!
Pembroke Herbert Kyle, Bill, and toddler
David are still in Topsfield, MA. Pembroke,
when not writing fund-raising letters, is in
the process of trying to expand her one-man
photo research business into a four-man (per-
son!) operation. I saw Pembroke's old room-
mate Sally Lawrence Watkins with husband
Bob in Topsfield last spring for David's
christening. Sally and Bob are still in Wash-
ington. DC. They took a lovely trip to France
last spring. Sally is taking architectural
courses at Georgetown U., and she and Bob
were planning to meet Pembroke and Bill in
Florida this winter for a super vacation!
Nancy Hiekox Wright, husband Gil, and
Pres (almost 3) are still enjoying country life
in Sudbury, MA, where Nancy has just re-
covered from a Christmas bout with pneu-
monia and is now in the process of negotiating
to buy a used piano.
Rickey Hendricks Whitelaw. husband
Keith, and Adrienne (TA) and Abigail (4'/i)
are enjoying Denver and the great recreational
opportunities there. She's taking ballet lessons
and doing a lot of work with the Denver SBC
Alumnae Club. (She says they are very gung-
ho there!) She sees Janalee Bourne McDonald
and her two young daughters and Lizzie
Miller Green and her young son. Rickey and
Keith celebrated their 10th anniversary last
June with a trip to San Francisco, where they
saw a lot of Judy Harbottle Maselli and Leo.
Judy is throughly enchanted with her new
role as mother. Infant Kate has a thick mop
of shocking black hair! Judy has a new job,
starting in February. She'll be working with
a small private company that sells computer
services to hospital dialysis units. She'll be
managing the hospital and monitoring their
research data. She has found a wonderful
lady, who lives five minutes from the office,
to take care of Kate, thus helping to ease the
pangs of leaving a new baby.
Mary Gress has been negotiating the snow
in Burlington, VT, for the past two years,
teaching at the U. of Vermont. She had 350
students last semester! She has also been do-
ing research in nearby Brookhaven. Laurie
Ives is teaching full-time in a Montessori
School in Houston, TX.
Carter Hunter Hopkins is back on the job
in the Career Planning Office at SBC after a
short leave to give birth to a son! She reports
that motherhood is terrific.
Jennie Lyons Fogarty is busy with her new
son Patrick and seems to be running every
Girl Scout troop and PTA group that her two
daughters are involved in. Tonia McNeil
writes that she is "living, moving forward,
and fairly happy." She has just completed an
M.A. in art and is on the staff of the Art
Dept. at San Jose State U. as a technician and
resident artist.
Anne Kinsey Dinan is still in New York
City with Terry and her two beautiful daugh-
ters. The girls are doing a lot of modeling
and now are getting into TV commercials.
Anne says look for daughter Kinsey in the
Hallmark ornament commercial.
Pamela McConnell Post, living in Wayland,
MA, spends most of her time mothering
S'/i-year-old daughter Whitney and 2'/j-year-
old son Tyler, but she finds time to play lots
of tennis and is finishing up a second grad-
uate degree in special education.
Coo Preltyman Smith is in Summerville,
SC, married to an attorney. She has just
written a book entitled Interiors Summerville
and recently decorated the sitting room in
the "Symphony Designer House" in Charles-
ton. She's had her own business since 1974.
Camilla Reid has moved to Palos Verdes.
CA, where she has relocated the headquarters
of the brokerage firm of which she is now
president.
Emmy Savage Borthwick and husband
Mark are in Ames, IA, where anthropologist
Mark teaches at Iowa State U. She and Mark
lived for a year('75-'76) on an atoll in Mic-
ronesia while Mark worked on his Ph.D.
Emmy completed her M.F.A. in painting at
the U. of Iowa in 1977. She is now a drawing
instructor at I.S.U. and also teaches drawing
and painting to children at the Des Moines
Art Center.
Patty Skarda continues to amaze us with
her achievements. She just returned to Smith
College from a year's sabbatical in England,
where she worked on her book about Gerald
Manley Hopkins. She had a great reunion
with Adrienne Hall Shepherd, who lives in
Taunton, Somerset, with husband Philip and
active son Neil (2). Philip teaches math at a
boy's school. Pat (as she signs herself now)
also had a reunion in Oxford with Ralph and
Ann Aiken and their sons (10 and 11). The
Aikens were there on sabbatical. Pat has re-
cently been awarded an American Council on
Education fellowship in Academic Admini-
stration for 1979. She will be spending her
time at various Midwestern Colleges and is
gearing up to fight those awful cold winters
there. She hopes this fellowship will help her
with the course of her career.
Suzanne Torgan Weston is working as a
systems consultant in Denver and is enjoying
this job. which has enabled her to meet lots
of interesting people and to learn new com-
puter applications. Her husband Stephen is
now manager of geological operations for
MinComp Corporation and involved with
computer applications to geology.
Lynn Warren Pope is moving to a new
house in Macon, GA, where husband Terry
is setting up a medical practice.
Tay Wood Cooper graduated with "high-
est distinction" from U. of North Florida with
a B.A. in fine arts.
John, Sarah and I are still in our Victorian
"mansion" in Newton, MA, where we've re-
cently acquired an adorable kitten, "Tris-
cuit," and just finished remodeling one of our
100-year-old bathrooms. (How delightful!)
Sarah is loving first grade in the Newton
Public School System. I've recently changed
jobs. I'm now working part time (25 hours a
week) in the data processing department of a
small insurance company. It's too early to
tell about this job yet, but my company is
located in the heart of wonderful downtown
Boston, and I'm thoroughly enjoying being
in the city again.
Please keep your Alumnae Fund envelopes
coming in — filled with checks (which make
Pembroke happy!) and news on the flaps
(which makes me happy!) And please don't
think your news has to be glamorous or ex-
citing! (There are a lot of us "plain and
routine" alumnae out there!) And to all who
reunioned in May. keep on dancing! See you
in 1983!
1972
Secretary
Nathalie (Bobo) Ryan Hovt (Mrs. Mont P.),
2523 Stanmore Dr., Houston, TX 77019
Fund Agent
Marion Walker, 3350 Altamont Rd., Apt.
B-4, Birmingham, AL 35205
Engagements
Louise Martin to Bill Creason
Marriages
Deborah Wilson to Michael Hollings. 1975.
Charla Leonard to Tom Reynolds, June, 1977.
Ellen Apperson to David C. Brown ("Kirk"),
March 4, 1978.
Linda Odum to John F. Lanahan, Jr., May
13. 1978.
Mary Phillips to Peter L. Donohoe, May 13,
1978.
Libby Wann to Frank Duff. May 20, 1978.
Martha Holland to Chris Irbe, June 3. 1978.
Carol Smith to Thomas J. Mullin, June 3.
1978.
Dottie Courington to William H. McGinley,
Jan., 1979.
Charlotte Daniels to Gene P. Lewis, M.D.
Karen Medford to John Distelhorst. M.D.
Births
Caitlin Turner Durham to Rhonda Griffith
Durham and Lynn, Feb. 26, 1978.
Richard Lee Wynne to Susan Snodgrass
Wynne and John, March 24, 1978.
Heather Lauren Brown to Sharon While
Brown and Marty. March, 1978.
Helen Weslay Van Clief to Trish Neale Van
Clief and D. G., April 20, 1978.
Margaret McMillan Hardesty to Jeanie Mann
Hardesty and Ben. May 13, 1978.
Mary Austin Long Fuller to Betty Works
Fuller and Frank. May 14. 1978.
Katherine Ellen Outon to Peggy Morrison
Outon and Paul. June 13, 1978.
Everett George Stook, III to Bonnie Moe
Stook and George, July 2, 1978.
Elizabeth Randolph Gay to May May Bryan
Gay and Garland, July 7, 1978.
Daniel Pearson to Elizabeth Kestner Pearson
and Rick, July 9, 1978.
Kean Ivey Marks to Ella Ivey Marks and
David. July 30, 1978.
Kristen Elizabeth Boney to Marty Neill Bonev
and Bill. July 31. 1978.
Anne Brooke Grumbine to Caroline Mauck
Grumbine and Francis. Dec. 9. 1978.
Kathleen Ryan Hovt to Bobo Ryan Hoyt and
Mont. Dec. 22, 1978.
Meghan Montgomery McAfee to Joan Keogh
McAfee and Chuck. Dec. 27, 1978.
David Wayne Miller to Ellen Moore Miller
and Rod. Jan. 5. 1979.
Adopted
Jennifer Elizabeth McGinnis at 2'A months
by Charlotte Brohard McGinnis and David.
Nov. 8. 1978.
What fun it has been receiving all your
postcards! The mail box has never been so
filled, nor the mail as interesting as it has
been this last week.
From the New England area, Pam Drake
McCormick writes that she and Gardner re-
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cently moved to Concord, Mass. Gardner is
working with a multi-association management
firm, and Pam is busy as an administrative
assistant for a professor at M.I.T. The Alum-
nae Office reports that Nancy Jenkins is
close by. Last year, she received a Ph.D. from
the U. of Indiana, and now has a "super job"
in Boston.
Joan Keogh McAfee is back in Connecticut
after attending graduate school at the U. of
Colorado and acting for the Colorado Shake-
speare Company. She and Chuck recently
celebrated their eighth anniversary in the
hospital when their second daughter, Meghan,
was born in December.
Sharon White Brown writes from Rutland.
VT. She and husband Marty have bought a
50-year-old house and are busy remodeling.
They also have a ten-month-old daughter who
keeps Sharon pretty active.
In New York City, Georgie Vairo is finish-
ing up her last year of law school at Fordham
U. She is ranked first in her class, is on law
review, and has published a paper on "The
Unionization of Law Firms." Georgie was the
first woman to play in the National Law
School Basketball Tournament, which Ford-
ham then went on to win. She also was on
Fordham Law School's National Moot Court
Team. They won the Regional round and went
on to participate in the Finals. After grad-
uation, Georgie will be clerking for a federal
district court judge.
Carol Smith Long and husband Tom are
both 1976 graduates of Albany Law School.
After practicing law for two years, both Carol
and Tom decided to return to law school at
New York U. for a L.LM. in Taxation. They
are currently living in Old Westbury, NY.
From Washington, DC, Martha Holland
Irbe reports that there was quite an SBC
turnout for her wedding to Chris Irbe last
June. Michela English '71 was maid of honor,
and Jean Chaloux and Ann Smith '74 were
bridesmaids. '72-ers who attended included
Louise Martin. Marcia Whittenbrook, Bar-
bara Tessin Jones, Gail Garner Resch, Pam
Drake McCormick, Briggett Keith and Char-
lene Sturbitts. In June '79, after completing
her second year of law school at Georgetown
University, Martha will be moving to Detroit
to join husband Chris who is working there
now, and commuting to D.C. on weekends.
Charlene Sturbitts' big news of the year is
that after three and a half years of night
school, she has received her law degree! Char-
lene will be staying with the Senate Environ-
ment Committee, but in the meantime is
studying madly for the D.C. Bar Exam.
Also in Washington, DC, is Dale Shelly.
Last September she finished her job as a
Research Staff Director for the National Coal
Policy Project with the publication of their
1000 page report. Since then she has been
general contractor for a major renovation
project — her home. She and her husband
James Graham have an old downtown D.C.
cooperative apartment, and Dale hopes the
renovating will be over by spring so that she
may get back to the business world. James
works for the Business Roundtable as a lob-
byist and energy policy analyst. They both are
enjoying the international side of Washington
through Dale's Junior League Placement.
They act as a host family for the State Depart-
ment, and this responsibility. Dale says,
usually involves providing a "real American
dinner" for foreigners who are guests of the
U.S. Government.
Kitty Adams has gone into business for
herself and has formed her own company.
She is a Governmental Relations consultant,
focusing on environmental and economic
issues. Kitty operates out of Arlington, VA,
and while owning her own business is per-
sonally satisfying, it is also a never-ending
job. There is no such thing as "office hours"
for Kitty these days, and weekends are now a
thing of the past.
Also in the Washington area is Mary
Phillips Donahoe. She is currently working
for Time-Life Books, and husband, Peter, is
property manager for Donahoe-Drury Real-
tors in Alexandria, VA.
Last spring Jennifer Linsley Alphin and
Tom bought their first house in Baltimore,
MD, and have been busy ever since fixing it
up. Jennifer still teaches math at Severn
School, and Tom recently joined a small law
firm. Margaret Lyle Jones is also in Baltimore,
and she writes that she is expecting her sec-
ond child in April.
Ginger Upchurch Collier writes that she
and Tom have one and a half more years at
Johns Hopkins before they are through with
their training. In the meantime, they have
been to North Carolina quite a bit to play
golf with Margaret Hayes Brunstad and her
husband Jim.
Karen Medford Distelhorst and John have
just returned from a two-week sailing vaca-
tion in the Grenadines. John is a big sailor,
and while Karen is slowly learning the nauti-
cal terms, she is quickly buying Top-Siders
and the latest Cris-Craft sportswear. John has
a medical practice in Annapolis, and Karen is
busy working on her M.B.A. and decorating
their old Victorian house located in the his-
toric district of the city.
Kathy Pauley Hickok writes that she and
Gene are still enjoying Charlottesville. Last
May Gene received his Masters in Govern-
ment and Public Administration from the
U. of Virginia, and this spring he will finish
his Ph.D. Then he will be looking for a job as
a university professor. Kathy has left her job
in the U. Va. Medical School to work with a
research professor in the School of Engineer-
ing who is developing an Energy Policy Stud-
ies Center at U. Va.
Ginny Stevens Purcell has been named as-
sistant editor of Lexington, VA.'s News-
Gazette, where she has been working since
her husband, Riker entered Washington and
Lee Law School.
Jennifer Castle Gerrish and husband David
have a house near the Rappahannock River
in Fauquier County, VA. Last summer Jen-
nifer quit her full-time job with the County
Water and Sanitation Authority, and since
then she has been playing lots of tennis, be-
come choir director for her church, and
worked part-time at the library in Warrenton.
Her job at the library, Jennifer says, is to
create newspaper and radio publicity for
library activities.
Briggett Keith is teaching fourth and fifth
grade math and science in Ashland, VA. She
writes that Jeannette Pillsbury was in Nic-
aragua until July and then moved in with
Briggett upon her return to the States.
Charla Leonard Reynolds' husband Tom is
a resident at Riverside Hospital in Newport
News. VA, and Charla enjoys her job as a
language specialist in a preschool for children
with developmental delays. Both she and Tom
are glad to be living in the Tidewater area.
Ella Ivey Marks writes that her husband
David sells real estate in Lynchburg. Ella is
the mother of two boys; Neil is three years
old, and Kean was born this summer, just
one week later than May May Bryan Gay's
little girl. Elizabeth.
Also living in Lynchburg, VA, is Ellen
Apperson Brown. Her husband. Kirk, teaches
at Virginia Episcopal School, and Ellen has
a job in the Alumni-Development Office as
the Assistant Director of Development. They
find life at a boarding school demanding but
enjoyable. Ellen also does some tutoring in
German and English, and both she and Kirk
sing in the choir at St. Paul's.
Mary Jane Harris Lerner went back to
school and received a Masters in Special Edu-
cation from Lynchburg College. She now is
working at the Lynchburg Training School
with eleven severe and profoundly handi-
capped boys. Mary writes that she still has
"the same five grandchildren, but they are
older and consume all the spare time they
think I have . . . that's what keeps me young!"
Janet Nelson Gibson says all is well in
Fredericksburg, VA. Jonathan is with a
C.P.A. firm, and Janet is an Opthalmology
Assistant. They see a lot of Ginnie B. Payne
Sasser and Flip. Ginnie B. stays busy at the
farms where she is raising horses, and she
still sells real estate on a part-time basis. Flip
is in his first year of law practice. Ginnie
B. writes, "No children yet, just three dogs!"
Last June, Carter Frakelton moved back to
Fredericksburg, VA, and is teaching fifth
grade in Stafford County — a middle school
about 20 miles north of Fredericksburg.
Carter says it is an excellent school system,
and the commute is much better than that
she had in Orange County. She is a new mem-
ber of the Junior Board of Historic Fredericks-
burg Foundation.
Barbara Tessin Jones and Ken have bought
a house in Richmond. They moved into it
just before Christmas, then left for Florida for
the holidays. Now they are back and are busy
fixing leaks, painting and unpacking boxes.
They miss the country life, but love the con-
venience of living in the city. Barbara is just
a short distance from Mays, Valentine, Daven-
port & Moore where she is enjoying her gen-
eral trial practice.
Ben and Jeanie Mann Hardesty are enjoy-
ing life in Clarksburg. WV. Ben is in the coal
business, and Jean is busy with volunteer work
and their little daughter Margaret.
Margaret Hayes Brunstad writes from
Winston-Salem, NC. She and husband Jim
had a super golf vocation on the links of
Pebble Beach, CA. She is employed as the
Administrative Assistant to the City Man-
ager and thoroughly enjoys it. Jim is Man-
ager of Salary Administration and Personnel
Operations for Wachovia Bank and Trust.
They consider North Carolina to be a great
compromise between Detroit and South Ala-
bama!
Last summer Jane Powell Gray worked as a
law clerk in the U.S. Attorney's Office in
Raleigh, NC. She is presently in her last year
of law school and hopes to land a clerking
position with a federal judge or a judge on
the State Court of Appeals.
Also in North Carolina is Edna Ann
Osmanski. "Dr. Osmanski" is Assistant Pro-
fessor of English, Chairman of the English
Department, and Director of the Interdis-
ciplinary Freshman Writing Program at St.
Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg.
"Hard work," Edna Ann writes, "but I love
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it!" This summer she plans to spend time
in England and Italy completing research on
her first book.
From Wilmington, NC, Marty Neill Boney
writes, "I can't believe that I ever asked some-
one pre-Kristen what I would ever do with all
of my spare time once the baby came along!
I never imagined that being a mom would
ever be a 48-hour-a-day job! But do I ever
love every minute of it!"
Barb Wiss is attending Duke U.. working
on her M.B.A. Last summer she spent three
weeks in Kenya and made short visits to
Athens and Istanbul. In August Barb at-
tended Muff Bugg's wedding in Richmond
where she saw Briggett Keith and Rosinne
Kaliff Chelala. who has two children and is
living in Saudi Arabia with her family.
Deborah Wilson Hollings is married to
Michael Hollings, the son of Senator Ernest
F. Hollings from South Carolina. She and
Michael live in Camden and, needless to
say. are very active in Democrat politics in
South Carolina. Michael works for C&S Na-
tional Bank, and Deborah has been working
with real estate, concentrating on the old
town, with the older renovated homes and the
country horse farms. They own a golden re-
triever. Belle, which Deborah has been train-
ing and running in field trials in the State.
Linda Odum Lanahan writes from Orange
Park. FL. Her wedding last May was filled
with lots of SBC people. Sally Blalock
Seidel and Cinda Lawrence Pierce were in
the wedding; Jeanie Mann Hardesty would
have been, but she was expecting. So instead,
Linda wore Jeanie's wedding dress, and, sur-
prise of surprise, Jeanie had her baby girl on
Linda's wedding day — that very morning!
John and Linda built a contemporary house
in Orange Park. John is in the insurance busi-
ness, and Linda is "retired" and having a
marvelous time choosing her activities.
Betsy Smith is in Jacksonville. FL. and
is in her second year of a four-year residency
program in Radiation Therapy at the U. of
Florida. If her plans work out. she will be
returning to Virginia to practice.
Eric and Abby Flynn Berg have recently
moved into their house in St. Petersburg, FL.
They are enjoying the sunny South, and Abby
is busy as a realtor for Century 21. Eric is a
respiratory therapist. He and Abby met each
other during Abby's Junior Year Abroad in
Scotland.
Beverly Home Dommerich lives in Ft.
Myers. FL. with her husband John. They love
the sun, and Bev says she now has a year-
round tan. John works for the State Attorney's
office, and Bev is an installment loan officer
at Barnett Bank. They try to see Sade Dabbs
Fryer every year on their way through At-
lanta. Bev reports that Sade and Bill had
their first baby in January.
From Birmingham, AL, the news is out
that Marion Walker won a big golf tourna-
ment, and got her picture in the paper! When
not on the links, Marion practices law. Also
in Birmingham, is Susan Waller Nading.
Alex, her husband, plans to enter the Urology
Residency program at the U. of Alabama at
Birmingham in July. Their daughter Murray
is a year and a half and a real delight for
Susan. She and Alex were planning a trip to
Mexico this spring.
Elise Webb Neeland is in Mobile, AL. Her
husband David is finishing his residency in
Radiology, and Elise is working as a psycho-
metrist, doing individual intelligence testing
for special education placement. They are ex-
pecting their first baby in August.
Dottie Courington McGinley is in her sec-
ond year of law practice in Savannah, GA.
Last June she bought a restored townhouse
in the historic downtown district. In January
she married Billy McGinley who is an inde-
pendent insurance broker.
Libby Wann Duff reports from Chatta-
nooga, TN, that Marcia Whittenbrook. Kathy
Bradt Blake, Louise Martin and Kathy
Walsh Drake came from Washington, DC;
Maui. HI; and Falmouth. ME, to be in her
May wedding and to join in the festivities.
Libby writes for The Chattanooga Times con-
centrating on energy and environmental con-
cerns.
Connie Brewer is in Memphis, working as a
realtor for Kemmons Wilson Realtors.
From New Orleans Patty Readon writes
that she received her M.B.A. and M.P.H.
from Tulane University in 1975 and is now
working as Assistant Administrator for the
Tulane Medical Center Hospital and Clinic.
Trish Neale Van Clief has two children.
Danny is 2'/j years old, and Helen is 9 months.
Her husband D.G. deals with thoroughbred
horse sales as Assistant Manager of Fasig-
Tipton of Kentucky. They live in Lexington,
and Trish says that they plan to make Ken-
tucky their home for at least three more years.
Betsy Buchanan Fishback is also in Ken-
tucky. She and husband Dave have a 2-year-
old daughter, Leslie. Dave is a veternarian
working just with horses and practices in
Georgetown, KY. Betsy still has her horse,
who is also a mother, and needless to say,
Betsy is kept busy running between horses
and foals and little Leslie.
Nancy Hagar Bruetsch writes that she and
husband Bob are reconstructing a three-story
townhouse in an urban redevelopment pro-
ject in York, PA, and hoped to move into it
this spring. Bob and Nancy are doing the
interior painting with help from their daugh-
ters. Kim, 3, and Kelly, 2. Bob is News Direc-
tor at WSBA-TV in York, and Nancy is
"raising two girls, packing, painting, re-
finishing furniture and squeezing in some
needlecraft and sewing."
Gail Garner Resch and husband Michael
are back in Cleveland, OH. They bought their
first house and are having fun fixing it up.
Gail started working at a private girls school
and loves working with the students and all
the activitiy surrounding a school. She and
Michael are planning a trip to Vieques, an
island in the Caribbean, this Spring.
Emily McNally Brown writes that 1978 was
a big year for the Brown family. Jim, her
husband, finished school and was hired by
Ford Motor Company. They also bought
their first house, a traditional three-bed-
room cape cod with a huge unfinished up-
stairs. They live in Ypsilanti. MI, and Emily
teaches while Peter, their son, is going to
nursery school.
Sharon Uhler spent four years in Great
Britain at St. Andrews U. doing graduate
work. She graduated in 1977 with a B.Phil.,
and since then has become the archivist for
the U. of Missouri in Kansas City. It is a full-
time job, but in addition to that, Sharon is
a part-time lecturer, teaching two courses in
history.
Joan Langenberg is now at Neiman-Marcus
Travel Service in St. Louis and is thoroughly
enjoying being a travel agent. She's also en-
joying her Neiman's discount !
Cleveland Hall writes from Langley, WA.
She is living with a man named Lafe on five
wooded acres on Whidbey Island, northwest
of Seattle in Puget Sound. They are building
themselves a log house by hand! Until it is
completed, they are living in an old trailer
which they fixed up — wood heat and running
water, but no electricity, and. of course, an
outhouse! Cleveland says that she is having
the time of her life — learning woodcutting
and playing in the woods. However, she does
hope the log house will be finished enough
by next winter to move into it — "one year of
the trailer is enough!"
Susan Snodgrass Wynne is now living near
San Jose. CA. Dubby, her husband, is man-
ager of the ABC TV station in San Jose.
Their two boys, John, 3. and Lee, 1 , are having
a great time. They live in the valley and can
see the mountains from their windows. They
are also close to the Paul Masson winery.
California will be their home for only two
to three years; then they plan to return to
Virginia Beach. Susan hoped to see Kathy
Upchurch in Dallas and Rhonda Griffith
Durham in Midland. TX. in March.
Margaret Craw is also in California. She is
on a Division Manager Staff for the telephone
company in San Fernando. This summer
Margaret plans to spend a month with friends
in Athens, Greece.
Cecilia Albert is now a homeowner. She is
still a Captain in the Air Force at Sunnyvale
A.F.S. and plans to be there for at least one
more year.
FJIen Moore Miller lives in Dubai with her
husband Rod and their three children; Eliza-
beth Ellen, 4, Mary Virginia, 2Vi, and David
Wayne, born in January. Rod is the Middle
East Equipment Control Manager for Sea-
land Service. Ellen says life in Dubai is quite
pleasant and not much different from that
in the States. "Traveling around the world,
however, with small children is a lesson in
fortitude."
Marilyn Prichard lives in Madrid and has
been there for three years. She teaches English
and is studying medicine at the U. of Madrid.
Rhonda Griffith Durham writes from
Midland, TX. Her husband, Lynn, is doing
securities law with Cotton. Bledsoe. Tighe.
Morrow and Dawson. Rhonda is the mother
of two — Trevor, 5. and Caitlin. 1. Rhonda
has never gotten the Senior Show out of her
blood, because "for fun" she has landed a
singing and dancing part in Midland Com-
munity Theatre's production of The Music
Man'
From Austin. TX, Peggy Morrison Outon
writes that she is into Spiderman and dino-
saurs with her 4-year-old Ross and his one-
year-old sister, Katie. When not child-rearing.
Peggy is a docent at Laguna Gloria Art
Museum.
Also in Austin is Patricia Brown. She is
almost through with graduate school and has
had fun traveling around the country inter-
viewing for jobs.
Near Austin is Betty Works Fuller. She is
busy with her one year old. Mary Austin
Long Fuller, and she also writes church school
curriculum for very small churches. Her hus-
band Frank is the Episcopal minister for the
church in LaGrange, TX.
From Dallas, TX. Kathy Upchurch wTites
that she is soon to finish her residency in
Internal Medicine and will move to Boston in
June for a rheumatology fellowship at Massa-
chusetts General. In May Kathy plans to join
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Ginger and Tom for a "whirlwind trip" to
Austria.
Sally Blalock Seidel and her husband
Charles are also in Dallas. Charles is a stock
broker for Rotan-Mosle. and Sally is working
as a travel consultant.
Sarah Von Rosenberg Mattox and her hus-
band Bob are living in Houston. TX. Sarah
keeps busy with her 3-year-old Charlie and
is expecting another in early July. Bob is a
personnel consultant for Arthur Young and
Associates.
At the time of this writing, I am burping a
colicky baby on my lap and listening to my two
year old tear his room apart while he is sup-
posedly "napping." Mont, my husband, is an
international lawyer with Baker & Botts law
firm and has recently been traveling a lot to
Jakarta, Indonesia. I have been busy reading
Spock and Gesell and dreaming about a
promised trip to England and Switzerland
this fall. Your cards and letters were greatly
appreciated, and to those of you whose cards
missed this writing. I will certainly save your
news for next year's publication. My best to
vou all.
1976
Secretary
Melanie Coyne Cody (Mrs. Robert C). 2618
Reese, Evanston. IL 60201
Fund Agent
Robin Rodger, 8900 E. Jefferson. Apt. 1522.
Detroit. MI 48214
Marriages
Carrington Brown Wise to Henry A.
Debbie Massie Harris to John
Kelsey Canady Bennett to Tony
Liz Farmer Jarvis to Andrew
Teesie Coste/lo Howell to Chris
Lori Neasham Khalili to Hussein
Patricia A. Weiler Thiess to Kenneth
Chris Carr Dykstra to Michael
Kay Ellisor Hopkins to Joe
Andie Yellott Clinnin to David
Jill Wen torf Wright to Robert
Frederika Catanzaro Nicholl to Dr. Thomas
Laura Lee Bost to James B.
Elizabeth A. Clarke McReynolds to Angus
Engagements
Susan Verbridge to Larry Paulson
Peyton White to Thomas Dunlap Lumpkin III
Asimina Coroneos to Frank A. Colucci
Rowena Van Tuyl to Gary Boris
Barb Foley Nyholm to Donald Ashley
Kathy Slatinshek to John Young
Maureen O'Hearn to Hill Slowinski
Holly Weaver to Ramon Quisumbing
Cynthia Wattley to Greg Washburn
Jean Dailey to Norman Kristoff
Births
Katie Cassidy to Tricia Cassidy Higgins and
Timothy.
Amir Shah to Lori Neasham Khalil and
Hussein
Thomas Jr. to Jane de Butts Kates and
Thomas
Sally Adams to Catherine Adams Thompson
and Michael
Lisa Louise to Donna Daniels Rubin and
Byron
Your response this year was really super;
with lots to report, I'll start right in. Sharon
Coe has just returned from teaching high
school English in Scotland. After a brief stint
at Bloomingdale's. Sharon's now working at
Nadler and Larimer Advertising in NYC.
Sharon reports that she had a great reunion
with Allyson Wilmer and Sue Walton. Hilda
Dent is busy completing her M.B.A. at
Auburn U. and redoing an old (1886) house
she bought. The house sounds terrific — 12'
ceilings, cottage vernacular style, four coal-
fireplaces and a view of the Alabama River.
Dede Alexandre's living in Greenwich, CT,
and still working at Mademoiselle as an Ass't.
Fabric Editor. Alicia Ayotte writes that she's
having a marvelous time in Atlanta working
at Cassandra Hemming/L&M Stage-craft,
doing lighting and production for Count
Basie. The Four Aces, Pat Boone and others.
Lochrane Coleman left SBC in June '78,
was a bridesmaid in Carrington Brown's
wedding and left for a two month spree in
Europe shortly thereafter. Lochrane's moved
back to Birmingham. AL. and now works as
the Director of the Annual Fund for the Law
and Pharmacy schools of Stamford U. Wendy
Bursnall is living in Denver, studying ballet
and raising funds for the United Way. Wendy
recently entertained Nancy Church '77 who
was in Denver interviewing prospective
SB-ers. Libba Gorin is teaching 3rd grade
at Louisville Collegiate and loving every
minute of it. Libba is looking forward to being
a bridesmaid in Susan Verbridge's June 23rd
wedding to Larry Paulson. Susan is in her
2nd year of Divinity School at Harvard U.
After their wedding, Larry and Susan plan to
spend a year in Colorado before returning
to Harvard for one more year of grad school
each. Ann Kiley is halfway through law school
at William and Mary. Ann represented the
Tidewater area at Alumnae Council in Octo-
ber '78, where she stayed with Kit Newman
in the Garden Cottage. Kit is living in Hous-
ton working at Leslie and Co., a Ralph
Lauren-Polo shop. Kit visited with Hilary
Cushing in the Hamptons over Labor Day
and plans to visit her brother in Madrid
soon.
Sally Crickenburger is living in Alexandria.
VA, with Lori Burrell '77 and working to-
wards her real estate broker's license. Sally
is busy remodeling a house she bought. Mary
Lewis is working as a ward clerk in the Surgi-
cal Intensive care unit at Danbury Hospital.
Mary is applying to Medical School and is
keeping her fingers crossed until she hears.
Peyton White will graduate from law school
at U.Va. in May and plans to marry Tom
Lumpkin (Dartmouth '76). Peyton and Tom
will be living in Miami. FL. Peggy Humphrey
is living in Kansas City. MO. raising horses
and teaching at Park College. Peggy recently
bought 30 acres in Sedona, AZ, and hopes to
move West and homestead in a year or two.
Sally Mott is living with Elliot Graham in
North Arlington, where she is working as a
senior energy researcher for the National
Journal and studying ornithology. Melaine
Holland Rice and husband George have just
finished building a house on the bay at Sand-
bridge, VA. Besides "contracting" Melanie's
been busy selling real estate.
Debbie Massie was married to John Harris
in the Sweet Briar Chapel on June 17th.
Debbie and John are stationed at Camp
Lejeune, NC, where they are both lieutenants,
Debbie serving as public affairs officer in
charge of radio and television. Terese
Degrandi is in her 3rd year of medical school
at Georgetown U. After finishing her clinical
work Terese plans to go into pediatrics. Robin
Rodger completed her M.B.A. at the U. of
Michigan in April '78 and is now working
for General Motors as a forecaster in the
economics and sales department. Kelsey
Canady Bennett and husband Tony live in
Arlington, VA, where Kelsey works for Sena-
tor Metzenbaum of Ohio. Kelsey and Tony
had a great wedding, attended by Elizabeth
Conway '79. Tennessee Nielsen, Wendy
Schnering Fisher, and Kathy Wichard Poston.
The Bennetts have been busy camping and
antiquing in the SBC area. Liz Farmer was
married to Andrew Jarvis June 24, 1978. Liz
is working at the Museum of Modern Art and
enjoying life in Manhattan. SBC-ers in Liz's
wedding were Holly Weaver. Jill Wentorf
Wright, Sherry Buttrick, Nonie Mickley and
Megan Morgan. Tricia Cassidy Higgins had a
beautiful baby girl named Katie Cassidy on
June 8. 1978. After a brief stint doing grad
work in criminal justice, Tricia has returned
to her old love, coaching basketball. Tricia
and her husband Tim visited Kari Anderson
Shipley and her husband John at their home
in Del Ray. FL. Tricia also saw Kathy Slatin-
shek. Wendy Wise. Tracey Markey and Kate
Kelly at Felice Ludington's apartment-warm-
ing in Manhattan.
Tennessee Nielsen is enjoying her 2nd year
of law school at S.M.U. in Dallas. Lynn
Kahler is the registrar's assistant at the
Cochran Gallery of Art in D.C. and currently
working on her master's in Art History at
George Washington U. Sue Walton just
finished a paralegal course at Adelphi U..
specializing in corporations. Sue hopes to
work in NYC. Emy de Quesada is an admis-
sions counselor for Florida International U.
and is busy traveling and recruiting students.
This past summer Emy spent a month with
her brother in Honduras traveling around
by jeep. Marion Dolan is having a super time
in Austria researching Brahms at the U. of
Vienna for her M.A. at Boston U. Marion
has racked up the miles touring Germany.
Belgium, France and Italy. Teesie Costello
married Chris Howell in June of 1977. Teesie
is working as a mortgage loan officer at In-
vestors Savings and Loan while pursuing her
M.B.A. at night at Va. Commonwealth U.
Trisha Talbot writes that for the past 2Vi
years she's been working for the Nat'l. Con-
sumer Finance Assoc, as a mortgage co-
ordinator. Soon her work will take her travel-
ing to Denver. Phoenix and Hawaii. Trish
reports that Lori Neasham Khalili and
Hussein are living in Tehran, Iran, with their
baby boy Amir Shah. Amy Troxell Stein
finds "life anything but dull." After hanging
up her golf clubs in September, Amy became
a full-time contestant in the paper chase at
Seton School of Law in New Jersey. Amy is on
various country club committees and works
part-time at a law firm during vacations.
Debbie Mutch Adelson's working for Exxon
in NYC and living in Stanhope. NJ. with hus-
band M. B. in their new house.
Robin Imschweiler is working at the SBC
riding center, competing with horse Ork at
as many horse trials as possible. Keedie
Grones is living in Amherst, VA, working as
an executive secretary for Riding Education
and Management Consultants, Inc. Larkin
Barrett Overstreet performed with the Dance
Company "Collage" in San Francisco and is
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now temporarily working as a special events
coordinator for Miller and Rhoads in Rich-
mond. Larkin plans to work on her M.A. in
teaching movement to children soon. Laurie
Fitzgerald Nowlan is teaching 9th and 10th
grade English and coaching hockey, basket-
ball and tennis at a private academy. Laurie
and husband Patrick are busy fixing up their
new house. Rowena Van Toyl writes that she
is now a registered broker, working for First
Manhattan Bank. Rowena plans a February
ski trip to Colorado and a summer wedding
to Gary G. Boris.
After finishing her work at the SBC Ad-
missions Office, Cynde Seiler moved home
to Philadelphia to join the family business.
Missy Briscoe McNatt is living in historical
Annapolis and commuting to Baltimore to
teach at St. Paul's Academy. Missy and Pani
McDonnell Hindsley see each other often.
Pam and husband Payne left Houston in
September and moved to Baltimore, where
they bought a charming townhouse. Pam is
working as a systems analyst for Acme Visible
Records and is thrilled to be back on the home
front. Debbie Vatterott has been busy work-
ing in St. Louis at the Mark Twain National
Bank as a new business development officer.
Deb has been able to squeeze in a trip to the
Virgin Islands and plans to visit Boston,
D.C., and Chicago this spring. Barb Foley
Nyholm was recently elected secretary of the
New York City SB Club. Barb's just com-
pleted her Junior League provisional duties.
is working for the Bank of New York and
planning her wedding to Donald Ashley.
Sally Old is living in Virginia Beach with
Sarah Longstreth '77. Sally is working as
the Ass't Manager of a branch of the Virginia
Nat'l Bank. Kathy Slatinshek writes of her
engagement to John Young and her new job
in Washington with the CIA. Gail Ann Zar-
well entertained Mary Woodford this summer
in Detroit. Mary graduated from UVa's Busi-
ness School and is currently living in Chicago
and working at the Continental Bank.
Linda-Jean Smith is living in Philadelphia
and working as the librarian for a law firm.
Linda-Jean keeps in touch with Kathy Creech
and Debbie Gahagan, who're living together
in Connecticut. Marilyn McClelland is fin-
ishing up her internship with General Elec-
tee's Manufacturing Management program.
Marty is currently on assignment in the DC
Motor and Generator Dep't in Erie, PA.
Karina Schless is in the process of buying
a new horse and planning a vacation to
London. Karina is the head honcho of an
employment agency called Quick Temps and
is applying to business school for the fall
of 1979. From May to September '79 she will
be riding and training event horses in England
with Chris Collins, a member of the British
Olympic Equestrian Team. Chris Carr grad-
uated from the U. of Fla. in August with a
Masters in Microbiology. Chris married
Michael Dykstra on Sept. 23rd and moved to
Chapel Hill, NC, where Mike is employed by
the University. Norma Neblett is still enjoy-
ing her job at Consolidated Labs in Rich-
mond. Norma took a break from work, vaca-
tioned at Hilton Head Island and attended
the July wedding of Robin Rourke Janeway
'78. Mary Weston is living in Madison, WI.
working with handicapped children. Mary
writes that Jane DeBuits Kates had a baby
boy. Thomas Jr., in November.
Lisa Nelson Robertson is living in Cam-
bridge, working at the Polaroid Corp. while
Tim attends Gordon-Conwell Theological
Seminary. Melaine Archer finished her nur-
sing degree in December while managing the
night shift of a drive-in bank. Ainslie Jones
and Tricia Waters '77 are living in Boston
taking full advantage of the city. Ainslie's
busy with Junior League activities and enjoys
the quaintness and variety of Boston.
Cissy Humphrey is leaving her newly pur-
chased "condo" in Dallas and heading to
Atlanta for a three month stint in paralegal
school. Cissy writes that Pat Dean is em-
ployed by A & P food stores in the corporate
offices in New Jersey. Beth Bates is living in
Dallas working at Tracy-Locke Advertising.
I chat with Kate Kelly frequently via the
Wats line. Kate sounds great; she is working
for HFD as a sales rep and Hies all over the
country calling on advertisers. Kate is living
with Tracy Markey in Manhattan, plays a lot
of paddle tennis and is planning a trip to
London in the near future. Marilyn Moran
is living in Westchester and working in in-
ternational advertising for Readers Digest,
writing and designing promotional ads.
Marilyn spent two weeks in England and Scot-
land this fall and is planning a trip to St.
Croix in the spring. Ann Works left SBC as
the Ass't. to the Director of Admissions and
moved to Rochester, NY, where she's work-
ing at the U. of Rochester as Transfer Ad-
missions Coordinator. Ann sees Andie Yellott
Clinnin frequently and is in constant contact
with Sallie Hill Bernard, who is finishing law
school at the U. of Arkansas this year.
Becky Burt and Megan Morgan are sharing
a house in Arlington. VA. Becky is working
for the American Institute of Architects as a
writer/editor with Libby Whitley '75. Megan
and Becky have been doing some theatre work
with Source, directed by Bart Whiteman.
Christy Mills is also living in the D.C. area
and is employed by BDM Corporation in
Tysons Corner. Dede Ryan is living in Hous-
ton and working for a travel agency that she
opened with a partner. I last saw Dede in
February at Pam McDonnell Hinsley's wed-
ding and she looked great. Candi Casey is
the representative of the West Coast con-
tingent. Candi is living in Beverly Hills and
working for a law firm in the corporate and
international division. Candi was previously
working for the Italian Trade Commission in
L.A. as a translator and trade consultant in
the fashion department.
Maureen O'Hearn writes that she is work-
ing as a paralegal at Logan and Hartson in
Washington and is engaged to marry Hill
Slowinski, an attorney, in June. Hill's room-
mates are both marrying SBC girls — Holly
Weaver is engaged to Ramon Quisumbing
and also works as a paralegal at Cole and
Groner. Jill Wentorf was married to Robert
Wright with Holly Weaver and Liz Farmer
Jarvis as bridesmaids. Jill and Robert just
moved into a restored carriage house in Al-
bany. Jean Dailey is living in Williamston.
NC, and working as the Director of a tri-
county shelter home for juvenile delinquents.
Jean is engaged to marry Norman Kristoff
her long-time W & L beau.
I moved to Evanston, IL, last summer
where my husband and I bought a house. I've
been working like a madwoman trying to
juggle marketing classes at Northwestern
V.. my job at TLK Advertising and some
semblence of a social life. (With all of
Chicago's snow we're frantically shoveling off
our roof.) Bob and I are looking forward to
a break in March, when we fly to Andros for
some scuba-diving. We saw Janet Durham
Ezzell and Calder over the 4th of July — we
all spent a rainy weekend playing tons of
bridge and consuming vast amounts of Strohs
in northern Wisconsin. Janet and Calder are
living in Roswell, NM, where they just bought
a lovely Spanish colonial house.
I've also received a lot of news from SBC-
ers who transferred. Pam Violante is working
as a historical researcher in the Art and
Reference Library for the Architect of the
U.S. Library. At night Pam pursues her Mas-
ter's in museum science at George Washing-
ton U. Since graduation from UNC Ann
Carter Lee has been living in Richmond in
the historic fan district. Ann is working as
a training specialist for the Medical College
of VCU. Becky Wilson is also living in Rich-
mond with Manie Mickley. After a brief stint
in Washington, DC, Becky moved to Rich-
mond and became a sales rep for Industrial
Chemicals, Inc. Meg Shields writes that she
has moved from St. Louis to Washington and
is working as a legal assistant in a DC. firm
with emphasis on EEO law. Catherine Adams
Thompson and Michael are moving back to
Virginia after four years in Kansas. Mike will
be working for the Fauquier Nat'l. Bank in
Warrenton, and Catherine will be busy show-
ing off Sally Adams, their new baby girl.
Maggie Milnor spent last year in London
working as an insurance broker for Lloyd's.
Maggie returned to Memphis and was able to
get together with Peggy Weimer, Eliot
Graham. Mary Beth Hamlin and Sally Old
in Richmond last summer. Cynthia Wattley
graduated from the U. of Md. and moved to
New Jersey, where she took a job as Editorial
Ass't. at a publishing company. Cynthia is
planning a March wedding to Greg Wash-
burn with Linda-Jean Smith as a bridesmaid.
Patricia A. Weiler Thiess is living in Mead-
ville, PA, and working as a youth counselor at
a private social service agency. Nancy Simonds
graduated from the U. of Texas and is work-
ing as a R.N. in the pediatric intensive care
unit of Texas Children's Hospital. Nancy loves
living in Houston; she's got a neat townhouse
apartment near the Galleria.
Frederika Catanzaro married Dr. Thomas
Nicholl, a veternarian last October. They
traveled to Rio de Janiero for their honey-
moon and are residing temporarily in Johan-
nesburg, S. Africa. Liz Jenks Coggin and
Turner bought a house in the Northern Neck
of Virginia near the Potomac and Chesapeake
Bay. Liz keeps in contact with Ookie Hayes,
Debbie Vatterott and Lisa Nelson Robertson.
Laura Lee Bost is living in Charlotte, NC.
with husband Jim and enjoying her new house.
Hilary Speare graduated from Olivet College
with a B.A. in biology and then proceeding
to Columbia U.. where she took her BSN.
Hilary has been working with premature in-
fants as an RN in Kalamazoo, MI. Jennifer
Romm graduated from Ithaca College and is
now living in Rochester, NY, where she is the
female half of the Jennifer and Doug morn-
ing show. Ellen King graduated cum laude
from the U. of Georgia and then received her
master's degree from the U. of S. Mississippi
in adapted physical education. Ellen is now a
graduate research ass't. working on a federal
grant at Okla. State U. and hoping to re-
ceive her doctorate in higher education
within the next two years.
That's it for the Class of 1976 this year. I £
really appreciate all the cards and letters. ^
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Sweet Briar: Still in the Black
Peter V. Daniel,
Vice-President and Treasurer
We hear a lot about the high cost of
everything nowadays and there certainly is no
denying the ravages of the inflationary spiral.
Colleges and universities suffer immensely in
these periods. The cost of fuel oil. electricity,
food items and many other daily expenses for
operating Sweet Briar have soared. Over the
last seven years the budgeted expenses have
increased at an average of 8.3% per year, and
for 1978-79. the increase was 10.4% over the
previous year.
In order to fund the increasing cost of our
operations, the revenues must also keep pace
with the inflation rate. Fortunately during
recent years Sweet Briar has relied less and
less on student fees and more and more on
unrestricted annual giving from alumnae.
parents, and others as well as increased en-
dowment income. For instance over the last
ten years college fees have risen 77% whereas
Sweet Briar's comprehensive fee has increased
71% during the same period, or an average of
7.1% per year. The consumer price index for
the same period increased almost 90%. To
achieve this we are greatly indebted to the
wonderful support of alumnae and the many
others in the Sweet Briar constituency. Not
only is such support invaluable to the progress
and welfare of this college, but its con-
tinuation will be even more essential in the
future.
The total assets of the College on June 30,
Alumnae
Notices
1978, were $34,952,000, an increase of
$4,069,000 over the previous year. Most of this
increase was centered in the Endowment
Fund, the book value of which increased from
$12,985,000 to $16,040,000. This increase was
due primarily to the distribution of the John
Lee Pratt estate. The market value of Sweet
Briar's Endowment Fund on June 30, 1978
was $16,937,000.
Operationally the College continued its ex-
cellent record and ended the fiscal year in an
enviable position despite the increasing
pressures of high inflation in so many areas;
the following graphs and tables help to illus-
trate this:
CURRENT FUNDS REVENUES, EXPENDITURES
AND OTHER CHANGES
Years Ended June 30, 1977 and 1978
1977
1978
BALANCE SHEET
Revenues:
%ofE&G %ofE&G
June 30,
1977 and 1978
Educational and general:
Student fees
$2,386,000
59
$2,717,000
61
Endowment income
961,000
24
996.000
22
ASSETS
1977
1978
Gifts and grants
429,000
11
443,000
10
Current Assets:
Other sources
237,000
6
324,000
7
Cash
$ 172,000
$ 232,000
Total Educational
Investments
3,864.000
4,661,000
and General
4,013.000
100
4,480.000
100
Receivables
432,000
483,000
Inventory
73,000
88,000
Auxiliary enterprises
1,320,000
1.492.000
Deferred expenditures
59,000
59.000
Other
182,000
168.000
Total Current Assets
4,600,000
5,523,000
$5,515,000
$6,140,000
Plant and Equipment
12,198,000
12,735,000
Expenditures.
Educational and general:
Other Assets:
Instruction
$1,630,000
43
$1,700,000
41
Investments
13,776,000
16,342,000
Library
167.000
4
204.000
5
Notes receivable
309,000
352,000
Student services
336,000
9
369,000
9
$30,883,000
$34,952,000
Operation & mtnce. of plant
General administrative
562,000
247,000
15
7
604,000
283,000
14
7
LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCES
Current Liabilities:
Accounts payable $ 200.000
$ 277,000
Public services & information
General institutional
Student aid
297,000
239,000
312,000
8
6
8
383,000
272.000
366,000
9
6
9
Advance student fees and
Total Educational
deferred income
254,000
256,000
and General
3.790,000
100
4,181,000
100
Total Current Liabilities
454,000
533,000
Auxiliary enterprises
1,169,000
1,290.000
Other Liabilities:
Other
219,000
180.000
Bonds payable
551,000
536,000
$5,178,000
$5,651,000
Total Liabilities
$ 1,005.000
$ 1,069,000
Other changes:
Transfer to Endowment funds
60.000
2.000
Current funds
Loan funds
Endowment and similar funds
Half-Century funds
Life Income funds
3,704,000
512,000
12,985.000
998,000
32,000
4,322,000
551,000
16,040,000
739,000
32,000
Reserve — plant
Reserve — natural resources
Reserve — book shop
Reserve — farm
Reserve — contingencies
30,000
1.000
7.000
17.000
222.000
60.000
18.000
21,000
388.000
Plant funds
11,647,000
12,199,000
337.000
489.000
$30,883,000
$34,952,000
$5,515,000
$6,140,000
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1977-78
ToUl Income l$6.l4mUllonl
£NDOWME.NT DOLLAR VALUE 'In
!•»! 41 M
TO Tl TI Tl 14 ?* Tft
1977-78
Told hp»nvf IS5.&5 million'
LNRtSTRICTtD GIFTS (In ihouundtol doll Ml
Parolt Fund
By-Law Change
Is Proposed
1»T0 IVI ITfl IVT3
Proposed By-Law change, to be voted on at
the annual meeting of the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Association in October 1979.
Article X — Nominations and Elections
Section 2 — Nominations
d. At the end of the last sentence, add:
"If no additional nominations are
made, the Director of the Alumnae As-
sociation is instructed to cast a ballot
electing the proposed slate."
1978 Gifts to the Alumnae Memorial Scholarship Fund
RECENT DEATHS
IN MEMORY OF:
Jean Bird Antonius '36
Margaret Banister '16
Dorothy Boyle Charles '31
Kate T. Coe '29
James R. and Patricia Cansler Covington
'48
Ruth Goodwin Duke '40
Florence Freeman Fowler '19
Susan Gibaud '65
Katharyn Norris Kelley '26
David T. Lauderdale
Margaret Alischul Luckhardt '49
Georgie Wilson Mockridge '30
Norvell Royer Orgain '30
Phoebe Rowe Peters '31
Doris Thompson Reeves '14
Esther Dickinson Robbins '27
Charles H. Sells
Laura Babbitt Shuffle '35
Mary Ely Smith '52
Gorham B. Walker, Jr.
Mrs. Russell Westbrook
Polly Cary Dew Woodson '26
Lid a Voigt Young '35
DONATED BY:
P. Goff and Mary Ellen Thompson Beach
'42
Juliet Halliburton Burnett '35
Martha von Briesen '31
Geraldine Mallory Lees "33
Mrs. Chauncey W. Durden, Jr.
Katharine Hill Apperson '40
Susanne Gay Linville '32
Sweet Briar Club of Rochester
Dorothy Keller Iliff '26
Lois Peterson Wilson '26
Nancy Godwin Baldwin '57
Mrs. Frank J. Altschul
Mary Moss Sutliff '30
Norvell Orgain Butler '60
Martha von Briesen '31
Sweet Briar Club of Toledo
Frances Sample Holmlund '27
Mary Doucett Neill '41
Cary Burwell Carter '35
Beverley Hill Furniss '35
Juliet Halliburton Burnett '35
Ruth Hasson Smith '30
Elizabeth Bond Wood '34
Frank G. Davidson. Jr.
Dorothea M. Fuller '53
William S. Woodson, Jr.
Juliet Halliburton Burnett '35
Sarah Tomlinson Foscue '38 and Mr. Foscue
Sue Lawton Mobley "55 and Mr. Mobley
Dr. Gertrude Bilhuber (AC)
(no date)
Mrs. Carter Glass, Jr.
(Ria Thomas AO
January 8, 1979
Mrs. Merrill Haskell
(Florence Grove AC)
November 20, 1978
Mrs. Marcus Hobart
(Helen Browne AC)
December 16. 1978
Mrs. Charles McKnight
(Mary De Long T9)
January 25, 1979
Mrs. Nelson C. Dezendorf
(Beatrice Henry '20)
December 19, 1978
Mrs. Irving W. Parkhurst
(Dorothy Copeland '23)
(no date)
Mrs. Brownlee Currey
(Frances Hampton '25)
February 10, 1979
Mrs. Gregory Ferenbach
(Romayne Schooley '25)
December 31, 1978
Mrs. H. Roger Birchall
(Eleanor Reehl '26)
October 17, 1978
Miss Marietta B. Darsie C26)
February 23, 1979
Mrs. Llewellyn W. Snead
(Daisy Huffman '26)
February 16, 1979
Mrs. Jonathan Moore. Jr.
(Mary Gladys Brown '26)
December 18, 1978
Mrs. Johnson Nobbe
(Martha Caroline Johnson '32)
December 19, 1978
Mrs. Addison B. Bingham
(Jean Buchanan '29)
May 8, 1978
Mrs. John K. Walker
(Virginia LaNieve '29)
December 30, 1978
Mrs. Frank E. Fowler
(Laura Sage '30)
(no date)
Mrs. James R. Scott
(Eleanor Elliott '35)
February 24, 1979
Mrs. William Bransford
(Frances Moses '40)
March 22, 1979
Mrs. Frances B. Whitaker
(Frances Baldwin "41)
November 1978
Mrs. Mary L. Freeman
(Mary Leonard '54)
July 22, 1978
Mrs. Jere C. Trent
(Lynne Gilbert '60)
November 13. 1978
*
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ALUMNAE IN THE NEWS
SUMMER ISSUE
1979
SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE MAGAZINE
Madden Lupton McCallie '48 is shown above with (left to right) son Jack B. McCallie, husband David P. McCallie, M.D., sons Allen Lupton McCallie
and David P. McCallie, Jr., Kiwanis president Paul Lewis and son Frederick Madden McCallie.
The Chattanooga Times — For the second
time in history, the Chattanooga Kiwanis
Club's Distinguished Service Award was
made to a husband and wife, Dr. David P.
McCallie and Maddin Lupton McCallie
(Sweet Briar '48). . . . The other husband and
wife team, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon P. Street,
shared the honor in 1972. (ed. note: Mrs.
Street is Ruth Lowrance Street '27.) Com-
mittee chairman Raymond Witt (husband of
Florence Bagley Witt '42), described the
McCallies as "father and mother who have
created a home and a family, while simul-
taneously functioning in such a manner to
symbolize and give reality to the human and
spiritual values to which Kiwanis has always
given primacy." Maddin Lupton, the news
story adds, has served on the long-range plan-
ning committee of the board of trustees of
McCallie School, past president of the Junior
League, member of the board of governors of
the Opportunity Home for Girls, the board of
the Riverview Garden Club. "Other agencies
benefiting from her energy and efforts are
the Goodwill Industries, Chattanooga Arts
Festival and the Hunter Museum Society, of
which she is chairman. She holds the Girls'
Preparatory School Distinguished Alumnae
Award for her contributions to the com-
munity. Maddin is a past president of the
Women of the Church, of which she is an
honorary member. She has served as director
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of the Junior Church and is the director of
the kindergarten class at First Presbyterian
Church ... In education, she has been a
board member of the Bright School and board
member of a day nursery in Chattanooga.
Nashville, TN — Governor Alexander has
named Ann Tuck (Ann Rowland Tuck, SBC
'48) to head the Department of Conservation
under his administration. Ann, a long-time
leader in Tennessee Republican politics, is
the first woman appointed to the Alexander
cabinet. "Ann Tuck has a keen sense of high
responsibility in Conservation and Human
Services during the administration of former
Gov. Winfield Dunn," said Gov. Alexander.
"She has a strong background in public ad-
ministration in two major departments of
state government . . . ." Ann is currently a
member of the Tenn. Beautiful Advisory Com-
mittee, states the Nashville newspaper. "She
is past president of the Tenn. Federation of
Republican Women and a former vice pres-
ident of the National Federation of Republi-
can Women .... She is president-elect of the
Nashville Symphony Association and has re-
cently completed a three-year term on the
executive committee of the Nashville Mental
Health Assoc. Exec. Committee."
Civil Sendee News, Washington, DC — Carol
D. Cooper, Sweet Briar College 1971, was one
of Ten Outstanding Handicapped Employees
of 1978 to be honored by the U.S. Civil Ser-
vice Commission, Oct. 1978. "Blind since
birth, Ms. Cooper is Clerk Dictating Machine
Transcriber of the Patent and Trademark
Office of the Dept. of Commerce. She is a
highly productive transcriber, producing type-
written material from dictation at rates ex-
ceeding seven pages per hour. In addition,
she answers 30 telephone lines and redirects
calls among the office's 94 employees. She
keeps extensive records by making Braille
notes and transcribing them in typed form so
that anyone can quickly locate desired mater-
ial. She has devised her own system for oper-
ating duplicating machines and for complet-
ing printed forms without assistance ....
"At the request of W. Va. University, she
helped evaluate a Braille verifer developed
for the National Academy of Science. When
her mastery of magnetic-card typewriters
came to the attention of IBM, she was asked
by that company to demonstrate the machines
at conferences .... Ms. Cooper majored in
modern languages at Sweet Briar. As a rep-
resentative for the Volunteer Braille Service,
Washington, and Reader Services for the
Visually Handicapped in Virginia, she has
participated in meetings, giving speeches
and promoting awareness of the problems of
the blind."
Teaneck, NJ— Former Maryland Assistant
Attorney General Joanna Sabalauskas
Lehane, Sweet Briar College 1966, has been
named Director of Government Relations for
Motors & Equipment Manufacturers Associ-
ation in New Jersey. In her new post she will
monitor federal and state legislative regula-
tory activities of "vital interest to the vehicle
components industry and will report develop-
ments to the membership and will maintain
liaison with Congress and federal and state
agencies."
In her former position. Mrs. Lehane was
senior attorney responsible for all legal mat-
ters concerning the Maryland Motor Vehicle
Administration. "As an expert in federal-state
relations, she has lectured on the subject of
state preemption of federal regulations. Her
other areas of expertise include business and
taxation legislation, standards for automotive
products, and international trade. She was in-
tegrally involved in 1975 in the recently-
decided oil company divestiture case, Exxon
Corp. v. Governor of Maryland. She served
two internships in the Capitol Hill office of
(then) Sen. Gruening of Alaska, and worked
as a law clerk for the Baltimore firm of Allen,
Burch and Baker."
Joanna received her Doctorate of Jurispru-
dence and her Masters of Laws in Taxation
from Georgetown Univ. Law Center, Wash-
ington, DC.
Smith College News, Northhampton, MA —
Patricia Skarda, assistant professor of English
at Smith College, has been awarded an Ameri-
can Council on Education fellowship in aca-
demic administration for 1979 .... During
her fellowship, Ms. Skarda will work first
with Robert Edwards, president of Carleton
College .... Ms. Skarda and the 42 other
fellows for 1979 will share their experiences
and common areas of interest at three semi-
nars hosted by ACE and at regional meet-
ings. Ms. Skarda. who has been on the faculty
at Smith since 1973, was educated at Sweet
Briar College (class of 1968), Texas Tech
and the University of Texas.
Schwabische Zeitung, Vim, W. Germany —
(translated) "As the daughter of an American
officer born in Frankfort am Mein Ann
Tedards already moved one year later to
California. Other stations were: Ohio, Oki-
nawa, Oklahoma, the Philippines, Japan and
Hawaii. She has sung her whole life up to
now in school, in church, in choirs. She first
determined to be a singer during her college
years. After four years she completed the
A.B.. after two further years she was freely
active, lived in New York and participated
for another year with N.Y. Pro Musica
Antiqua Ensemble. At the Grazer summer-
school (1978) she was discovered by General
music director Frederick Pleyer."
Further translations from the German
newspaper describe in part Ann's concert at
a summer festival at Ulmer Theater: "Two
parts of the program proved to be well ap-
plauded smash hits. One of them was the
debut of the highly talented American singer
Ann Tedards .... The surprise and discovery
of the afternoon was Ann Tedards from New
York, who immediately had an enthusiastic
audience . . . with an aria from Verdi's "Fal-
staff." Her voice possesses all the sustaining
qualities, the style, animation and register to
give the aria all the delicate, thoughtful and
convincing performance it demands."
Salisbury, NC — Mrs. John E. Ramsay is the
recipient of the 1978 Brotherhood Award of
the local chapter of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews as "the originator of
an idea and gentle but effective agitator" who
brought the Meals on Wheels Program to
Salisbury and Rowan County. Mrs. Ramsay
is Jean Ann Ferrier, SBC '47. She and John,
an architect, are parents of four children and
grandparents of three. Jean Ann and her
volunteers began the Meals on Wheels over
a year ago. delivering 16 meals: the day of the
Award presentation in 1978, her group had
delivered 98 meals. The United Fund supports
the program but the Salisbury newspaper
says Jean Ann is "the mother of Meals on
Wheels who has courage, an empathetic
nature, and a tireless, resourceful, modest and
goal -oriented spirit
University of Rochester Office of Public
Relations, NY — Sheila A. Mahoney (Sweet
Briar '66). academic counselor in the Career
Services and Placement Center of the Univ.
of Rochester, has been appointed assistant to
the deans of the School of Medicine and Den-
tistry .... She will be responsible for coordi-
nating activities such as personnel and pay-
roll administration, curriculum planning and
commencement planning. Before joining
the University staff in 1977, Ms. Mahoney
was a visual editor at Harcourt Brace Jovano-
vich .... Previously she had been employed
in the Department of Rare Books and Manu-
scripts in Rhees Library of the University of
Rochester; as a staff counselor in a hospital
in Valdez, Alaska; and as a teacher in
Rochester. A graduate of Sweet Briar, Ms.
Mahoney did graduate work at Stanford Univ.
and at Middlebury College.
Public Relations Society of America, Inc.,
NYC — Janis Thomas Hawk (SBC '52), associ-
ate director of institutional relations at the
University of Alabama, has become the 17th
public relations practioner in the state to be
professionally accredited by the PR Society
of America .... Accreditation is the highest
recognition of professional competance be-
stowed upon members of PRSA. This Society
is an 8,000-member professional organization
which advances the practice of public rela-
tions through a continuing educational, re-
search and information exchange programs.
Ms. Hawk is the immediate past president of
the Alabama Chapter. PRSA. Her daughter
Caroline is a sophomore at Sweet Briar
'78-'79.
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"Alumnae In The News" is made up from
press clippings sent from all over the world,
wherever Sweet Briar alumnae have perform-
ed noteworthy deeds. If you recognize a friend
or classmate in a newspaper story, would you
please send it to us? Just address an envelope
to the Alumnae Office, Sweet Briar, VA 24595
— and be sure to include the name of the
publication from which you took the clipping.
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Going . . . Going . . . Gone
Back to College
by Ann Marshall Whitley '47
Once upon a time a graduate of Sweet Briar re-
turned to live in Amherst County. My husband
and I, tired of fighting for survival in major metropolitan
areas, yearned for fresh air, beautiful scenery, less hassle,
good water, lower taxes, our own firewood, no traffic,
peace and a vegetable garden. We found a nice knoll
with a 180-degree view of the Blue Ridge Mountains,
and we proceeded to build a house. Building a house in
Amherst County takes a long time; therefore, I decided
to take a course at Sweet Briar to keep me from the
building site so that I would not be tempted to kick,
maim or strangle the builder.
My return to college at the mid-century point in my
life is quite a revelation. I cannot remember being a good
student but I did put in enough licks to pass into the
Alumnae Association. Grades were never my strong
point, but science was my Waterloo. I was handed an
earthworm in zoology and had to be shown which end
the head was on. When I returned to college to rejuve-
nate my gray cells I was agog over the course selections.
There was a whole world of good things to choose from
in 1978. 1 felt like a five-year-old in a candy shop, want-
ing to take everything.
I had taken a good smattering of liberal arts back in
the 40's. It seemed wise to select something that I knew
little about: African history.
Yes, the Dark Continent was going to light up my
mind. Day #1 came and with pen poised over the theme
book, the dried-out brain revved up to absorb miracles
of modern research, the aging machine went into action
surrounded by those charming young things known as
the future of our nation. I am resigned to being from the
"olden days." Could I compete? Why not? While there
is life, there is hope.
The first thing I learned was that my preconceived
ideas of Africa were all wrong, absolutely and em-
phatically wrong, so I had to start by unlearning things
that I was not aware that I had absorbed during my life-
time. When all the new facts about Africa were presented
to me, I realized my knowledge had been picked up
through the years from such sources as the Tarzan films
which played every Friday night at our local movie house
David Abrams
Ann Marshall Whitley
"Raised in Cincinnati, I am probably the only child ever brought home
from the hospital to find a Sweet Briar pennant hanging over the crib.
My mother was in the class of '21. After SB graduation I joined the
staff of the Cincinnati Art Museum and in 1950 married an Army
lieutenant and we lived in Austria. After some twenty transfers and
two daughters (Libby, SB '75 and Cindy '78), Jesse and I retired from
military. During our many moves — and living in twenty-five homes —
I worked in art groups, lecturing and researching for museums. I also
hung curtains for 350-plus windows, painted miles of walls and put in
dozens of gardens. At the moment I'm collecting and cataloging the
treasures of Sweet Briar. We have an unbelievable trove of early Vic-
toriana on campus . . . ."
Ann was '47's class secretary for ten years, president of the Washington
DC Club and now a member of the Golden Stairs Committee. As a
student, she majored in art history, worked on the SB News and Briar
Patch and sang with the Glee Club. She also was elected Sweetheart
of Sigma Chi at U.Va.
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ONE OF THE GANG-
in the 30's. I was sure that all of Africa was jungle, grass-
skirted spear throwers and mangey lions. Not so. There
were some outstanding civilizations in Africa. Lions
live in savannah country; mangey lions live in zoos and
circus cages. I discovered that only a fraction of Africa
is rain forest. I had forgotten that Egypt, Morocco,
Nubia and Ethiopia had ancient and prestigious his-
tories. The Sahara and Kalahari deserts are part of the
scene, too. Looking back, I should have remembered
"Beau Geste" with Gary Cooper and Telly Savalas. They
swashed and buckled all over the desert, and that desert
was in Africa. We all saw "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."
That too is in Africa. Thanks to Ernest Hemingway, I
remembered after the fact that Africa has mountains.
In my SBC class new and strange words were thrown at
us: Axum, Timbuctu, Kush, Nok, Zimbawa, Dongela
and Bantu, and we learned their place in history. I was
forging ahead like a rusty old steam engine.
The fifth week a paper was due. Choose your own sub-
ject! Professor Sir might as well have said, "Choose your
own poison." I stewed and fretted and finally presented
a paper, unscholarly, to say the least. It was not con-
notated, annotated, footnoted or researched. In effect,
it was a real Erma Bombeck but I figured Professor Sir
could use a laugh. Laughing prolongs one's life. Pro-
fessor Sir would live forever after reading this.
Then came the miracle. The paper was returned with
a notation. "It is a pleasure to read a grammatical essay
in which the sentences are connected logically to each
other. You are way ahead of recent products of 'pro-
gessive education'." He liked it! Three cheers for my
college experience. I was over the wave and could sail
into the next quarter under a full head of steam.
Oh, the joyous days of college when one needs to be
true only to one's self, a selfish time and perhaps the
only and last time in a person's life when she can be
totally self-centered. I see this now, looking at the stu-
dents. These bright, lovely young people, minds open
and — like sponges — soaking up the flotsam and jetsam
of dozens of courses, looking no further into the future
than Saturday nights at U. Va. or W&L. That's great.
I lived through it and loved it a lifetime ago.
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'ittmjo*
IT LOOKS TARTHER
THAN IT USED TO...
I wonder how they would feel if they knew what that
old lump sitting in their class was really thinking.
Professor Sir is saying, "In 1380 Europe suffered a finan-
cial crisis because the African gold supply dwindled to
a trickle, due, in effect, to rival sub-Saharan kingdoms
going to war and not providing gold to the caravans go-
ing north." So here we are 600 years later and what's
new?
African gold is still in the ground (albeit Fort Knox),
the dollar is plunging like a Playboy neckline, the natives
are restless, the South African powder keg will blow any
moment, Idi Amin may still be lopping heads, Rhodesia
is feeling poorly. Ho-hum. I wonder if my new septic
tank will work. Good grief. I forgot to take the meat out
of the freezer for dinner. I wonder if my husband can
survive another omelette this week. Do we help the kids
with the rent again this month?
Professor Sir: "The gold that did reach Europe from
Africa stayed mostly in Italy and the Italian city states
became wealthy and so we have the beginning of the
Renaissance in Italy." Well, I have no gold but this cer-
tainly is a Renaissance for this old student.
Another thing about going back to Sweet Briar is the
beauty of the campus and countryside. I am aware that
the students notice this beauty occasionally, but being
preoccupied with the basic fundamentals of "getting
on with their thing," they could be at Wassamatta U.,
Anyplace, USA, for all the joy they take in the sur-
roundings. I feel sorry that most of them can't take the
time to smell the flowers, but I do take joy in the fact
that I can. Students are limber and jog, hot and sweaty,
from one end of the campus to the other. I stroll and
take in the scenery. I sniff the boxwood and magnolia.
Someday they will come for their 25th reunion and won-
der where the scenery came from.
I walk to the lake and watch a great blue heron flap
gracefully away over the pine trees, a hawk so high
against Paul's Mountain that it looks like a sun speck
dancing. I am at peace and begin to think kind thoughts
of Thoreau at Walden. It is a purely transcendental day
until I hear in clarion tones from the boat house,
"STACK THE BEER BY THE RAILING AND GET
THE ACTION MOVING! TURN UP THE AMPS!"
The amps are turned up and do I get any of Handel's
Water Music? No way. I get a split ear from Bennie
Carter and Willie Smith on the alto saxes at a million
decibles. My mood isn't broken; it is smashed. I realize
fully that youth is really wasted on the young, and I am
happy it is behind me.
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N/
COMMUNING WITH NATURE
Returning to college has a lot of benefits and many
options. You can eat lunch with the students and
you get an earful. You are not their mother and you are
not one of the faculty, you are just an older one of them.
They confide their frustrations about their courses and
the faculty. You eat lunch with the faculty; now you are
their contemporary. You have graduated, you are with
them, and their frustrations go into your other ear.
There you are, the middleman. So you drop back twenty
years when you were an Army wife and recall Lesson #1
. . . "hold your peace and do not let either side know
what the other thinks." (State Dept. Diplomatic Pamph-
let for Wives of Military Attaches, 1959.)
As an alumna student you go to student parties, to
faculty and alumnae parties. It is all yours. You can
study at leisure. The stacks in the library, so much larger
than in my day, offer not only heavenly peace and quiet
but also the world at your finger tips. There in the stacks
you forget the time, you forget the unmade beds and
you forget those Golden Stairs letters you promised to
send out. They trust you in the library. You have white
hair and some liver spots. You are responsible. You look
plump, settled and reliable so they give you the key to the
Rare Book Room. You read Daisy's Diary in the original,
poke around in the Archives, look at jade cups, Con-
federate money, Indian arrowheads, wonderful pictures
of SBC in her infancy and you even hold Jefferson Davis's
silver punch ladle.
The girls are friendly, charming and interested in
everything. One darling offered me a pair of her old jeans
when she discovered I was refinishing some furniture.
Jeans made me feel like one of the gang.
When I need to borrow notes for a missed class, do I
go to a dorm room to find a classmate? No, there is a
new system today. You find your classmate's favorite
soap opera and you will find her there. You go to Gram-
mer for All My Children at 1 p.m., then to Carson at
1 :30 for As the World Turns. Dew has Search for
Tomorrow and Gray has One Life to Live at 2 p.m. The
soaps play to full houses. You can also pick up Search
for Tomorrow at Alumnae House.
A return to Sweet Briar in mid-life is mind-stretch-
ing. You have — besides courses — concerts, films,
theater, horse shows, art exhibits, poetry readings, reci-
tals, exercise class, church activities, jazz groups, sports
and the swimming pool. It doesn't hurt to be quali-
fied in time-management expertise. To participate in
all of these activities is like living in a Waring blender
and a certain amount of frustration ensues because you
cannot possibly manage it all. Yes, life at Sweet Briar
can be rigorous if you want it to be. It elevates your a
spirit from the ordinary household routine. What fun! %
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Elizabeth McMartin '79
Career Planning
by Carter Hunter Hopkins '68
When we, in the Career Planning Office, found
that 65 percent of Sweet Briar's class of 1978
went directly from college into jobs, we decided it was
time for us to light a few firecrackers under ourselves.
We believe that a liberal arts education is the best
possible preparation for beginning jobs in business, in-
dustry, government and education, as well as for grad-
uate schools in the professions. But these days, parti-
cularly, students need practical skills to discover their
career preferences and how to get started.
No longer is our office work merely finding jobs for
seniors. No longer will you find us in the basement of
Fletcher! We have moved upstairs to 202-3 Fletcher.
Gone is the old name, Vocational Guidance Office. Now
we are the Career Planning Office and look at what we
now do. We have added :
— one-to-one counseling
— interest tests
— a resources library (information on career fields,
graduate school programs, fellowships and scholar-
ships, employment trends, opportunities for minori-
ties and women)
— career speakers series
— a monthly newsletter (recruitment schedules, fellow-
Sweet Briar's Dierctor of Career Planning, Carter Hunter Hopkins '68,
has been named oneof the Outstanding Young Women of America for
1978. This award is made by a Board of Advisers, representing the
General Federation of Women's Clubs, Business and Professional
Women's Clubs, Pilot Club International, the YWCA and other
women's organizations. Carter received the M.Ed, degree from Ameri-
can University in guidance counseling and then worked as counselor at
Stone Ridge Country Day School, Bethesda. She is the daughter of
Byrd Smith Hunter '43 and the sister of Baird Hunter '70. She is shown
above, seated, with Mittie Jordan Harvey '74, the Assistant Director.
ship, scholarship, employment opportunities, on-
campus career education events)
— on-eampus recruitment
— workshops (resume writing, interviewing, skills in
decision-making; assertiveness training, job search
techniques)
— an alumnae network (opportunities to be in touch
with alumnae active in a field of interest)
— job placement assistance (job announcements: part-
time, full-time, summer jobs)
— placement files (recommendations kept on file and
sent on request to prospective employers)
These are all planned to help every student and
alumna find where she is going and what are her saleable
characteristics.
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A grant from IBM has helped to fund our metamor-
phosis. Faculty members can now take field trips to
businesses and industries twice a year to learn what our
graduates face. Faculty members can also apply for
funding summer projects, internships or work ex-
changes. Here are the 1978-79 projects:
Field Trips. 1978-79
Kiplinger Editors
Washington. DC
Xerox International Center for Management and
Training, Leesburg, VA
Individual Faculty Projects (summer, 1978)
A Consideration of Canadian Studies: Rosalie
Murphy, English
Identifying General and Specific Job Opportunities
in Energy-Related Career Fields: William Trausneck,
Education
Opportunities in Art Conservation: Helen Gager,
Chemistry; Susan Bandes, Art History
The Establishment of an On-Campus Data Bank for
Students Interested in Gerontology and HL-A Typing:
Jeff Beaubier, Sociology
An Assessment of the Types of Language Training
Required by Various International Employers: Marie-
Therese Sommerville, French
At a Career Planning workshop, left to right: Helen Gager (Chemistry), Susan Bandes (Art History), William Trausneck (Education), Rosalie Murphy
(English), Jeff Beaubier (Sociology) and Marie-Therese Sommerville (French).
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Alumnae, students and faculty and staff members are
welcome to all our programs. Our 1978-1979 Career
Planning Programs have been:
Oct. 3: Careers in the Civil Service
Oct. 11: Interviewing Techniques Workshop
Oct. 30: Career/Life Planning Workshop (Nella Gray
Barkley '55)
Nov. 2: Resume Writing Workshop
Nov. 7: Careers in Advertising
Nov. 14: Job Hunting Techniques Workshop
Feb. 8: How to Find a Summer Job
Feb. 15: Coping with Stress
Feb. 20: Careers in Retail Management
Feb. 22: The Art of Time Management (workshop)
March 1 : The Place of the Liberal Arts Graduate in
Today's Job Market — a panel of business leaders
March 6: How to Run Your Own Business: Amanda
de Coligny '68
March 19: Getting the Jump/Beating the Rush —
workshop for juniors
March 22: Community Forum — faculty panel
April 3: Dual Career Couples — panel
Our Career Planning Office serves alumnae as well as
current students. If you need us, call (804) 381 -5593 or
stop in at 202-203 Fletcher on weekdays between 8:30
a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Please keep your credential files cur-
rent; your file should contain letters of recommendation.
Our office would like to know about alumnae current
jobs, what you alumnae are doing in your jobs. If you
are available to come to the campus to speak about your
career, we will furnish housing and contribute toward
transportation costs.
Please call or write to Carter Hopkins, Director of
Career Planning, Sweet Briar, VA 24595.
A number of services are available to students and recent graduates of
Sweet Briar. Below, three current students browse the career-related
literature in the reading room in Fletcher. Opposite, representatives
from two different companies interview prospective graduates. Upper,
Hannah Craighill '79 chats with Carol Manweiler, college recruiter for
the Virginia National Bank. Lower, Charles Higgins of Metropolitan
Life interviews Rebecca Trulove '79.
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David Abrami
David Abrams
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the editor's
Professor Edwards' look at Sweet Briar's setting
(see page two) reminds us of at least three others
who also looked at the land and appreciated it and wrote
of the beauty they saw.
"There are Norway spruces, cathedral yews, southern
magnolias, weeping and branching hemlocks, horse
chestnuts, maples, locusts with their fragrant white
clusters in June, to be followed later in the summer by
the white flowering catalpa, and the delicate mimosa."
Meta Glass, president from 1925-1946, added, "A
holly rises almost to the height of the spruces, while the
feathery shower-bouquets of a fringe tree stand delicately
revealed against a boxwood hedge .... There has been
preserved one of the original cabins of the slaves, stand-
ing in front of a stately Indian deodar and overhung by
a paulownia tree that showers its pale purple blossoms
about the door or blossomless, casts its dappled shadows
across the old stone chimney."
More than one hundred years before President Glass
wrote these words about Sweet Briar, a young man left
Vermont on horseback and rode to Virginia. And in 1831
Elijah Fletcher wrote from Lynchburg to one of his
brothers, "I have lately bought me a Plantation which
Maria talks of settling and spending her summers at
.... It lies this side of Amherst Court House . . . with a
large brick house on it, containing about 1000 acres of
pretty good land
Elijah in 1844 wrote, "We are building at Sweetbrier
Plantation the great Barn so long talked of — 100 feet
long and 40 wide .... The crop prospects look well.
Early wheat is now beginning to be harvested."
To Sidney, Indiana, and Elizabeth Fletcher, Elijah
sent a letter from Sweetbrier, 1846: "Dear Children . . .
Pauls mountain this time has divided the Clouds and
left us here dry. A little more (rain) here would have
helped the second planting of Corn, but we shall make
enough any how and the Tobacco has not suffered ....
You would be pleased with the fruit in our orchard.
There are all varieties ... It would be a great amusement
for Inda and Bettie to go from tree to tree and try the
new fruit
The next day, August 22, 1846. Elijah continued his
letter to his children, ". . . . I have picked out my final
resting place on the round top of Woodroofs Mound
(now known as Monument Hill). I used to converse with
Sidney about it, how I wanted an area enclosed and a
plain White marble obelisk 20 feet high. And this en-
closure I would like cultivated in fine Trees and shrubs
and flowers and that all my children should meet there
once a year and prune and trim and cultivate it .... All
quiet. The whole face of the earth looks green, weeds as
high as your head and yesterday on the meadows cut
the second crop of Clover
A year later he noted, "late rains has given some new
vigor to vegetation. Wheat is in full head, cherries are
ripe. We have at this plantation an abundance, as well
as plenty of fine Field Strawberries
To a brother, Elijah in 1848 wrote, "You will hardly
guess what I am amusing myself about to day and per-
haps will think me foolish when I tell you that my em-
ployment is the superintendence of Setting out Trees of
various kinds, when from my age there can be little
chance of seeing their growth to maturity or enjoying
their fruits. But these are considerations that hardly
ever enter my mind, and as Mr. Gerrard said, 'Plant a
Tree to day if I knew death would await me tomorrow.'
... I have 100 English Walnut of small size. About 10
years ago I planted some which are now bearing. They
are a hardy and pretty Tree and will be profitable when
they come to bear .... I have a large nursery of Fruit
Trees . . . ."
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In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the
death of Daisy Williams, the granddaughter of
Elijah Fletcher and the child in whose memory Sweet
Briar was founded, the College published Daisy's diary.
The following selections from her diary are printed ex-
actly as she wrote them from January 1882 until late
summer, 1883. In the winter of 1884 she died at sixteen.
April Friday 21 1882
.... every thing is lovely here, the poplar trees are
green, the yellow jesamine is just in bloom and the lilacs,
the orchard is beautiful the grass is so green and the
trees in full bloom ....
May Saturday 1882
.... The weeping Syringa is in full bloom and very
beautiful you can smell it all over the yard ....
May Wednesday 1882
A lovely day. The fringe tree is in bloom and a good
many roses I planted flower seeds yesterday ....
June Friday 1882
Warm. The magnolia is in bloom we sent a bloom to
Aunt Lilybell ....
August Thursday 1882
.... The men have finished grubbing the crape myrtle
is in bloom and the belle flower apples are ripe.
From Daisy s letters
May 2, 3, 1883
My own dear Mamma,
.... The season is very backward. The poplar trees are
a faint green, and the maple and willow, that is all, there
are no flowers but lilacs and jessamine and narcissus ....
Near the little roses there is a honeysuckle which is quite
large, don't you think it ought to be transplanted and
where? .... The apple orchard is in bloom the apricots
are killed .... Ed is now weeding, the rosemary is dead,
and 6 or 7 of the little roses .... The grass is very
green ....
May 8, 1883
.... The magnolias came with good hills of earth, two
of them very straight and pretty, but the other two were
rather crooked ....
May 15, 1883
.... The daisys at the Monument Hill are in bloom
they are the first I have seen. I think there will be a good
many strawberries, won't Mammy and Singie eat straw-
berry cake and cream! .... The rhododendrons are
beginning to bloom ....
May 27, 1883
.... Everything is out fully now and the fields are
pink with the clover in bloom. I find three or four ripe
strawberries every day in the garden for Papa .... The
magnolia has a good many buds on it. Two of the new
ones are putting out leaves very well, and two are not.
July 30, 1883
.... I have a German exercise to write so I will say
Good bye for a little while.
Your loving little Singie
P.S. Wohlriechend Feldrose — sweet briar; literally,
sweet-scented field rose.
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Sources: The Story of Sweet Briar College by Martha L. Stohlman '34:
The Letters of Elijah Fletcher, edited by Martha von Briesen '31 ;
Daisy's Diary, published by Sweet Briar College c. 1934.
— The Editor
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Speaking of Books . .
by Eugenie W. Carr '68
America's early painters, such as Thomas Cole and
Frederic Church, "were tramping the wilderness
and painting the awesome power of nature they felt
there . . . They looked upon nature as a manifestation of
God and a cure for all society's ills," said Barbara Bab-
cock Millhouse '56. "They felt nature would make
them into better people."
Mrs. Millhouse's book, American Wilderness — The
Hudson River School of American Painting, is a young
adult book published by Doubleday last year. The name
"Hudson River School" is a little misleading, the author
says. The tall cliffs of the Hudson River area of New York
were only the first sites visited by the painters; when Al-
bert Bierstadt later painted the western mountains, the
genre was called the "Rocky Mountain School." But it
all stemmed from the same philosophy, that the wilder-
ness would save man from himself and his corrupting
cities. A better appellation for her book, Barbara says, is
"19th century American Romantic landscape painters."
She noticed the Hudson River painters a dozen years
ago when she and a committee began assembling the
Reynolda House Collection of 19th C. American paint-
ings. After the house was opened to the public in 1965,
she thought it needed a handsome collection of paintings
exhibited in a comfortable setting. "What really turned
me on was an exhibition of Church's paintings at the
Knoedler Gallery in New York. The gallery, an old and
famous one, did no justice to the massive paintings.
Though poorly displayed, they were a complete thrill to
me."
Barbara has studied and written about artists for
years, and she teaches at Reynolda House in Winston-
Barbara Babcock Millhouse
'56, writer, lecturer and Presi-
dent of Reynolda House.
Salem. The actual writing of her new book, she says,
took some nine months, "plus a few months for revisions.
I trained myself never to sit in front of the typewriter
with a writer's block. If I couldn't think of a sentence
or paragraph, I would just type words or phrases — just
to keep the typewriter clicking." The weeks she worked
on the manuscript she never worked less than four
straight days from 8:30 a.m. -3 p.m. "The book was a
thrill for me because I had never done anything like it,
longer than the Reynolda House catalogue and an article
for Antiques magazine. Now I would like to write an
adult biography of Thomas Cole and a children's biog-
raphy of Charles Peale . . . The history of the period
fascinates me. The 19th century takes me into a world
of utter peace and happiness and simplicity."
Barbara Millhouse is the granddaughter of R. J.
Reynolds, who built Reynolda House, and the daughter
of Charles H. and the late Mary Reynolds Babcock, and
the sister of Mary Katherine Babcock Mountcastle '52.
It was through a grant from the Mary Reynolds Babcock
Foundation that Sweet Briar was able to build the Bab-
cock Fine Arts Center. On Parents Day, October 29,
1960, the cornerstone was laid and the name announced
for the first time at Sweet Briar.
Ed. note: Eugenie Carr '68, a staff reporter for the
Winston-Salem Sentinel, wrote this book review from
which we have taken excerpts, for her newspaper.
Reynolda House: Museum of American Art
The many rooms of Reynolda House contain a col-
lection of American paintings extending over 200
years from 1755 to the present, including works of John
Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Mary Cassatt, Thomas
Eakins, Benj. West, Thomas Hart Benton, Andrew
Wyeth and many other artists.
In 1976 a collection of prints by contemporary Ameri-
can artists was added, works by Albers, Dine. Mother-
well, Stella and Johns "reflect the highest achievement
in the technique of printmaking."
The living room of Reynolda House has a massive
fireplace, flanked by the double staircase balcony that
extends around the entire room ; the furnishings are
Duncan Phyfe as well as English, French and Chinese.
Displayed in the Lake Dining Room are more than 70
Dorothy Doughty porcelain birds; although made in
England for the Royal Worchester Porcelain Company,
the entire collection is exhibited at Reynolda House.
Even the attic is used! It serves as permanent exhibition
space for the collection of clothes worn by the Reynolds
family since 1905.
Richard J. Reynolds, with only $7,400 in capital, built
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the nation's largest tobacco manufacturing company. In
191 7 the Reynolds family built Reynolda House on a
thousand-acre tract in North Carolina and built a self-
sustaining community with a church, school, post office,
greenhouse, blacksmith shop, stables, dairy and homes
for about 100 people. Only eight months after the family
moved into Reynolda, R. J. Reynolds died. His wife
Katherine continued to develop Reynolda and raise their
four children, Mary, Nancy, Dick and Smith. After
Katherine died in 1924, the house was held in trust until
it was acquired by their daughter Mary Babcock. Over
the years the Reynolds and the Babcocks initiated many
civic and education programs. They gave some 300 acres
to Wake Forest University; the greenhouse-style swim-
ming pool is now used by students of the American Art
Discovery Program ; the former post office is the office
of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation; the dairy
barn is a Nature Science Center; Piedmont University
uses the estate to house visiting scholars and for lectures.
In 1970 Reynolda House hired a full-time director and
the collection has been accredited by the American As-
sociation of Museums.
Estate^
Planning
News
FOUR ITEMS TO TIDE YOU OVER
THE SUMMER
/. For The Young:
The New England Alumni Trust (NEAT) Group Term Life Insurance program,
to which Sweet Briar introduced you last fall, had very good response, and soon we ex-
pect to hear what dividends the college's participation will earn. Now that our policy
has been in force for more than 90 days, we are entitled to Open Enrollment. That
means you don't have to wait for a specific sign-up period, but if you want to join the
Sweet Briar Group for coverage from $10,000 to $50,000 and your age is under 65, you
can write direct to
N E A T Alumni Life Plan
790 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, Connecticut 06032
or call their toll-free number, 1-800-243-5198, and ask them to send you the necessary
forms.
II. For The Middlers:
You saw the five-year history of the Pooled Income Fund in the spring issue of
this magazine; so you know that is thriving. We happy Poolers have just managed to
stuff our fat new quarterly dividends in our pockets and are proud to report a 6.98%
return on our money. This is a very satisfying investment for those between 50 and 64,
and we have lots of room for expansion.
III. For The Seniors:
Since the December mailing to the Ladies of the Evening, the Estate Planning
Office has been doing a brisk mail order business in Gift Annuities, which are written
for those 65 and over in amounts of $1,000 and up. They provide an excellent tax
deduction at the time of the gift and semi-annual payments for the rest of your life
determined by your age and the amount of your gift.
IV. For Everyone:
The most important single act in the management of your affairs for yourself and
for your family, including Sweet Briar, is to have a proper and up-to-date will
executed, not just contemplated, from your first acquisition of property on. Of course,
you are bound to realize in the course of this action that leaving a percentage of your
estate to Sweet Briar will not hurt your heirs but will do wonders for your alma mater.
Office of Estate Planning
Sweet Briar College
BoxG
Sweet Briar, Virginia 24595
mjo i m :fiT« :m tilu.V; i u ikti iceitmtitmm
. . to gef a preview of Sweet Briar in the eighties
. . to mingle with the students and find out what they 're interested in
, . to meet the faculty and learn about the courses they're teaching
. to talk to the Deans and Administrators and hear their concerns
. to listen to the plans of the planners
. to greet old friends and make new ones
. to renew your spirit
COME BACK TO ALUMNAE COUNCIL FROM OCTOBER
8th to 10th.
lumnae Council is for all alumnae who wish to attend, and is of special
nportance to those who are concerned with the general welfare of Sweet
riar College.
umnae Council is a must for alumnae members of the Board of Overseers, former alumnae
embers of the Board of Overseers, members of the Executive Board of the Alumnae
ssociation, Class Fund Agents, Class Secretaries, Club Presidents, Key Alumnae, Alumnae
epresentatives, Bulb Chairmen, Class Presidents, Reunion Chairmen, Estate Planning
lairmen, and the President of the Senior Class.
// Sweet Briar Alumnae Clubs are urged to send one or more
presentatives. All alumnae are guests of the College for all planned
eals and overnight accommodations.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW AND MAKE YOUR PLANS
TO ATTEND COUNCIL MEETINGS.
program and reservation form will be mailed in early September. If you do not
'eive a form and wish to come please write to the Alumnae Office, Sweet Briar
Uege, Sweet Briar, Va. 24595 and one will be sent to you.
MISS HELEN EDGEMON
THE LIBRARY
SWEET BRIAR
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Alumnae Magazine
Fall 1979
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Daisy's Gold Watch:
A Detective Story
Mount San Angelo Burns
The mansion at Mount San Angelo, which was part of the original
Sweet Briar estate, was destroyed by fire on July 17. Fortunately no one
was hurt in the blaze which was attributed to a faulty attic exhaust fan.
The building housed the living quarters and offices of the Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts.
The VCCA is a working retreat for professional writers, composers,
painters and other artists. The twelve artists housed in the mansion are
now living in their studios, which are located in the renovated stables.
Ironically, the 109-year-old building was undergoing its third
renovation in preparation for the grand opening of the Center on
October 6. VCCA director William Smart says that the VCCA will
rebuild, probably on the site of the old mansion.
More photos inside back cover
juc oi ir
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Alumnae Magazine
Sherlock Holmes at SBC
by Ann Marshall Whitley '47 2
The Importance of Women to Women
by M. Elizabeth Tidball, Board of Overseers 7
Follow the Leader
byTabb Thornton Farinholt '59 12
A Meshing of Talents
by Dorothy Nicholson Tate '38 1 6
Hello, I'm Julia de Coligny, I Don't Believe We've Met
by William E. Smart, Jr. 17
Can I Do Anything for You?
by Byrd Stone '56 18
The Boxwood Circle — 20th Anniversary 19
SBC Alumnae Notices 20
The Five Hundred: a picture story
by David Abrams 22
Lacrosse: 1912-1979
by Katherine Macdonald 26
The Year of the Vixen 27
The Editors Room: Artes Liberaliae 28
Profile of the Class of 1982
by Janet K. Lowrey 31
Sue Reid Slaughter Update 32
Class Notes 33
Volume 50. Number 1. Fall 1979
Editor: Catharine Fitzgerald Booker, A.B. '47
Managing Editor: Ann Morrison Reams. A.B. '42 '
Class Notes Editor: Carolyn C Bates, M.A., University of Illinois
Editorial Assistant: Mary Hughes Blackwell, Assistant to the Director of the Alumnae
Association
Design: The Design Group, Lynchburg, Virginia
Sweet Briar College Alumnae Magazine (ISSN 0039-7342). Issued four times yearly: fall,
winter, spring and summer by Sweet Briar College. Second Class postage paid at Sweet Briar.
VA 24595. Printed by Progress Printing Co., Lynchburg. VA 24502. Send form 3579 to Sweet
Briar College . Box E. Sweet Briar, VA 24595. Telephone (804) 381-5513.
Sherlock Holmes
at SBC
By Ann Marshall Whitley '47
Sometimes I wake in the night and
think that I am Miss Marple or
Mrs. Colombo. At this point, if
someone whispered, "Hey,
Sherlock!" I would snap to attention
and become a detective.
Our detective story began
because I volunteered to help Helen
McMahon '23 collect Sweet Briar
alumnae memorabilia. I had learned
years ago as an Army wife never to
volunteer because it could lead to
anything and one could never be
certain whether it would be good or
bad. However....
When our treasure hunt started
in September, 1978, Helen Mac
was still at her summer home in
North Carolina. I forged ahead
alone and immediately realized that
sleuthing out and collecting alum-
nae memorabilia was only the tip of
an iceberg when it came to the
other fine things that Sweet Briar
had squirreled away over the years
in attics, basements, stables,
closets, crates and boxes. These
items, unknown to the current ad-
ministration, were the historic pro-
perties of Sweet Briar College.
Rosam quae meruit ferat may be the
College motto, but I have a new one:
Extra visum, extra mentem (Out of
sight, out of mind).
The first small collection of
treasures began to expand at an in-
creasing and alarming rate. The
room assigned as our collection
point in the lower level of the chapel
began to bulge. We moved into a
larger room and then spilled over
into an adjoining room. What caus-
ed this explosion of such historic
proportions? Sweet Briar just never
threw anything away; it simply hid
things and forgot about them; we,
in turn, are rediscovering them..
This detective story has been go-
ing on week by week, rain or shine,
for many months, through puddles
of water, into dark corners of attics
with flashlights, into cobwebs,
In this home medicine chest we found a
prescription written by E. Blackwell,
M.D. — the first woman doctor in the
U.S.? The address fits.
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mildewing boxes and damp, molder-
ing horse stalls. It has been an
adventure of following clues that are
so vague they should be dis-
counted — yet they turn up
something valuable. Suddenly we
whisk off a dust-laden cloth in a
pitch-dark attic and find in the beam
of our flashlight a charming 1 830's
parlor table. We reach into an old
box and find staring up at us a
crumbling daguerrotype of Elijah
Fletcher.
Rediscovering a Sweet Briar
treasure is an exercise in patience.
You know it is there waiting for you
to find it in some dark, dank place.
You cannot wait to reclaim it from
years in limbo, so where do you look
and what are you looking for?
Ann Reams at Alumnae House
one day casually said, "Try and find
a picture of Indiana Fletcher
Williams. Nobody has ever seen a
picture of the College's founder and
I have had many requests for a pic-
ture of her.''
Where does one start looking on
3,200 acres of grounds, dozens of
buildings and rooms? You don't.
You just hope that Indiana Williams
will appear out of the past. Will you
recognize her if she does turn up?
Who knows, unless a picture is label-
ed?
One morning this year, Virginia
Kitchen, the College's director of
residence halls, said, "I have ^n old
suitcase full of Daisy's clothes up in
Gray attic and next time I go up
there I'll bring it down." I couldn't
wait, but this is a waiting game, so I
stewed, chewed my nails down to
the knuckle bone and plagued the
dear woman for a month. Finally!
Daisy's clothes were in my clutches.
Only they were not Daisy's clothes
at all. They were her mother's.
Well, what do you know about
that? Mow, I thought, we can find out
something about Indiana Williams,
her size. I found a wobbly old dress
form in our drama department and
dressed the form in a two-piece silk
dress with a high neck, leg o'mutton
sleeves and a slight bustle to her
skirt. I whipped out my tape
measure and discovered that In-
diana Williams during the
mid- 1 880' s had a twenty- inch waist,
a thirty-four inch bosom, was about
five feet, six inches tall, weighed
about 120 pounds and loved
beautiful hand-tailored clothes. In
the case was a black silk faille jacket
with jet buttons and superb beaded
lace, a night wrapper of green
striped foulard silk, a black skirt
with elegant couched-on braid trim,
an 1870's bonnet with flowers and
velvet ribbons.
I had already discovered Daisy's
clothing in her trunk which had been
hidden in the library archives for
more than thirty years. Daisy was a
petite size six. I would estimate th^t
before her death in 1884 at sixteen
years of age that Daisy stood about
five feet in height and weighed no
more than ninety pounds. The
clothes from Gray attic were for a
tall, slender mature woman whose
clothes styles post-dated Daisy's
death. By now I really was hoping to
find a portrait of Indiana to match
the face to the figure, so to speak.
I had seen some of Indiana's
clothes, read some of her letters, ex-
amined the contents of Sweet Briar
House and realized that she was a
bright, intellectual woman who
adored to travel, who loved New
York above all places because of the
opera and art galleries, who was a
gifted musician and collected
elegant things with no expense
spared. Some of her bills I found for
silver purchases alone amount into
the thousands of dollars. A shadowy
picture of a very interesting woman
was beginning to emerge from a dim
past.
One day over lunch this past
spring, Martha von Briesen '31 sug-
gested that I search out some of her
photographs in the library, that they
might be helpful in my research. So I
began rummaging through boxes in
a jumbled corner of the library. I
Chatterbox was a collection of short stories written and illustrated by Daisy
Williams in 1876.
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happened to glance into a far corner
of the room and saw green mildew
creeping up the wall. A box, sagging
with dampness, was in that corner. I
hoped that Martha's photographs
were not in that box because I
visualized ruination and deteriora-
tion. Dragging the box to a table, I
began to remove damp
photographs. First out was a decay-
ing daguerrotype of Elijah Fletcher!
Then came five photos of James
Henry Williams, three photos of
three-year-old Daisy and a big photo
of the monument on Monument
Hill — No, this marker said
"Lightbody," so ours must be a copy
of this one from a New York
cemetery. There was a picture of
Mrs. Crawford, Elijah's mother-in-
law. There were pictures of houses,
unidentified people, old stereoscope
pictures of Europe and a piece of
paper that read, "These pictures
were found in the basement of
Sweet Briar House by Reuben Hig-
genbottom in 1954." Reuben was
President Glass's butler and stayed
on at Sweet Briar House working
for Presidents Lucas and Pannell.
Some of the photos had been burn-
ed and had charred edges: they had
been in the Sweet Briar House fire
in 1927.
Several of us immediately remov-
ed the box to Sweet Briar House and
laid the photographs out to dry on
the wide sunny window sills in the
dining room. Two of the pictures
were of a handsome (unidentified)
woman dressed in lace, an elegant
lady with a pleasing face and wide
eyes. Both of the photos were made
in New York. One photo was of the
lady at about age forty and was done
by a photographer named Rock-
wood. The photo of three-year-old
Daisy, from the same box, was made
by Rockwood at the same address.
I remembered a photo of a young
girl with a lace scarf on her head; the
photo, in a red velvet frame, was in
the library with the Fletcher books
and papers. The staff had called her
"Daisy." I had never been convinced
that this was Daisy because the girl
did not look like any of the known
pictures of Daisy, or at least not to
me. I removed the library "Daisy" to
Sweet Briar House and compared it
to the two photos of "Lady
Unknown." They were the same in-
dividual at three different ages,
ranging from about sixteen to forty
years. Now came the acid test. I un-
earned the "library Daisy" and on
the back was the name of a Parisian
French photographer. Miss Indie
had spent considerable time in Paris
in 1844, 1845, and 1846 at about
age sixteen. WELL, HELLO, MISS
INDIE! Pieces of the puzzle were
locking into place, and the sleuth
was jumping with joy. We had found
the Founder, and Indiana Fletcher
Williams was lovely.
Now 1 felt we could lay to rest the
ghost that spread the rumors that In-
diana refused to be painted or
photographed because she was fat,
had a goiter, was vain, or in some
fashion was queer looking. We had
heard all those rumors for years, but
after eighty years the concrete
evidence in photographs and
clothing is now in hand to quell
those allegations.
We were moving smartly along,
but in the wander-and-search
department it became increasingly
evident that we were dealing with a
tremendous amount of Victorian
furniture. I began photographing,
documenting and cataloguing it
piece by piece. Sweet Briar has too
much furniture of the pre-Civil War
period to have come from just one
plantation: a dozen couches, 3
sideboards, 10 desks and
secretaries, 80 plus chairs, 12 chests
of drawers, 20 or more tables, 15
pier glasses and over-mantel mir-
rors. What a mass of Victorian fur-
niture, and where had such a
treasure come from? The furniture
is everywhere: in Sweet Briar House,
Garden Cottage, in offices, attics,
dormitories, the old stables, a
surfeit of Victorian period pieces
and some from even earlier periods.
Certainly the Mt. St. Angelo fur-
niture is here. When the Walker
family bought the plantation across
the road it was empty. Miss
Winifred Walker, the youngest of
the Walker children and who lives in
the area, said that they had to fur-
nish the place. Some pieces may
have come from "Tusculum," the
plantation near Clifford, where Eli-
jah Fletcher's wife was raised.
Some of Dr. Manson's furniture
came to Sweet Briar, according to
Edna Lee Gilchrist '26. I cannot im-
agine any other college in the coun-
try with such a collection.
This was a moving experience for
me. I suddenly wanted to move
everything that was out-of-sight
and not being used into one safe
place. And it will be done. Of
course, much of the furniture is
still serving its original function,
but after one hundred to 1 50 years,
some pieces need rest and
recuperation, also some glue, mend-
ing and tender loving care. Several
delicate little pieces need to be
whisked out of busy offices and be
replaced by contemporary pieces.
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After years of not knowing what Indiana Fletcher Williams looked like, we sudden-
ly found three photographs showing her at different stages of her life.
I wandered into Dean Patt's of-
fice one afternoon and asked for an
appointment to photograph the
dozen or more fine Victorian pieces
in the Deanery. The Dean suggested
that I go to the summer storage
area — a disagreeable hole near the
power plant — and have a look at an
etagerie stored there. There was the
etagerie, a specially designed
cabinet piece; also there was the
most magnificent sofa on campus,
a heavily carved rosewood and still
in good shape. I was gleeful and
saddened at the same time because
the damp cinder block building had
water puddles on the floor, mildew
and spiders. It was an unspeakable
place to store two such valuable
pieces of furniture; however, it is
clues such as Dean Patt's that are
paying off beautifully.
Before I left summer storage I saw
two large pine crates in a dark cor-
ner. It was suggested that I have a
look at the contents because they
had been there for more than thirty
years and it was rumored that
Daisy's clothes were in them. Good
grief! How many clothes did that
child have? The sofa-size crates
would hold enough outfits to supply
a platoon. I knew we were missing
the famous yellow ball gown that
earlier graduates were so fond of
and remembered well, but the crates
looked like coffins. If I opened one I
might find Daisy inside dressed in
the yellow gown!
I made arrangements to come
back the next morning with morale-
boosting reinforcements. I had
spooked. The crates had been stored
there so long that the cobwebs fes-
tooning them had gray hair that
looked like Spanish moss.
The next morning Helen Mac,
Deedie Whiteman, several members
of the Buildings and grounds staff
and I lifted the lid of the first crate.
Piles of newspapers, all dated De-
cember 12, 1947, covered mounds
of objects. I felt like Howard Carter
when he peered through the hole in
King Tut's tomb and said, "I see
great and wondrous things."
We saw porcelain vases. Japanese
lacquer, photographs, a doll, a
child's chair, a sword, a pistol and,
yes, more clothes! We removed the
crates to our sorting room in the
chapel and started unpacking. Out
came Daisy's engraved gold Tiffany
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watch(1883), her blonde curls, let-
ters, memos, lap desks, china dogs,
Japanese dolls, beautiful lace, four
pairs of children's shoes, bonnets,
tea caddies, scrapbooks, Mr. Wil-
liam's master's thesis, and a Lynch-
burg newspaper clipping that read,
"For Sale - Sweet Briar Plantation,
the recently renovated hotne of the
late Elijah Fletcher" (Jan. 6, 1860).
This bonanza boggled my mind
and suddenly I had 1 ,00 1 questions
and I also had the yellow ball gown.
Some of the treasures we found had
been packed away from Sweet Briar
House during the tenure of Presi-
dent Lucas to make way for a
downstairs bathroom.
It is always the business of a col-
lege to look to the future, to the pro-
blems at hand and to the growth of
the institution. There isn't much
time to look back. In 1907 Sweet
Briar, desperate for funds, sold the
Fletcher-Williams silver, jewelry,
lace and other items of intrinsic
value. It then was more important to
buy mortar, boards and brick. As
people now begin to hear of this
snowballing project, we are being of-
fered the return of objects that have
long been gone from Sweet Briar.
Perhaps more long-gone items will
be returned.
Because Sweet Briar was a work-
ing plantation far longer than it has
been a college, there are many fine
farm tools and machines to be
found or sought out. We are still a
farm, and here and there we find in-
teresting tools: scythes, rakes,
pulleys, reed grinders, hand corn
planters, saws, axes, adzes,
blacksmith tools, a blacksmith
bench complete with hand cranked
bellows, horse-drawn mower and
road scrapers, a six-man sleigh.
These will all be documented.
What are we going to do with our
treasures? We feel that first things
must come first, so we will acquire
everything we can, pertinent to the
history of the College and planta
tion. These things will be
documented and catalogued after
identification, put on display and
later we shall have a Sweet Briar
museum.
We have enough artifacts at this
writing for historic displays, period
rooms, costumes and a farm-
plantation section. Students who
are aware of this project are eager
for displays of our findings, and we
have many students who want to
work with us. For many years our
students have not had the oppor-
tunity to see the artifacts; for that
matter, much of the material has
never been seen by alumnae, staff,
faculty or students since the Col-
lege was founded. Until 1947
Sweet Briar House maintained a
small collection of historic items;
the rest were probably in cup-
boards, closets and boxes where
they had been since the death of In-
diana Williams in 1900.
Our neighboring colleges and
universities are far advanced of us
in historic preservation.
Washington and Lee has a fine
museum in the lower level of Lee
Chapel. VMI has a nationally known
collection of great historic impor-
tance. Hollins has a collection of
alumnae acquisitions, including
porcelain. Hampden-Sydney has its
own building provided by the class
of 1963 to house its historic
memorabilia.
The items we own are unique to a
college, in my experience, especial-
ly the furniture and Daisy's
clothing. The college has over
thirty-five of her outfits starting
with infant clothes through her
teens. Included are hats, shoes,
stockings, ribbons, shawls, sashes,
a nightgown, underwear, a cape and
jackets. It is not difficult to find
adult clothing of this period of
1867-1884, but children's
clothing is somewhat scarce and
children's underclothing is im-
possible to find. The items we have
are all hand-made, exquisite with
lace, tucks, crochet work and
charming buttons. Maria Georgiana
Williams was a much loved child.
As this project proceeds it will
take time to put our "new" antiques
into good condition after years of
almost total neglect. We shall need
expert advice on furniture, fabric
repair and cleaning, leather restora-
tion and display know-how. We'll
have to decide where to locate the
future museum, and of course there
is always the necessary evil — money.
In the meantime, the sleuthing,
gleaning and gathering-together
continues.
I have laid a rather heavy em-
phasis on the antique possessions
of Sweet Briar because the project
is so new, but I want to point out
that the alumnae memorabilia sec-
tion is also rapidly expanding. We
have high hopes of building a first-
rate Alumnae Archives. Helen
McMahon has collected class rings,
jewelry, old photos of May Queens,
May Day photos, a nearly complete
collection of our year books,
photos of Paint and Patches pro-
ductions, freshman aprons, early
diplomas, concert programs,
Walker family items and other gifts
from alumnae and past presidents
of Sweet Briar and gifts from our
professors.
During 1979 reunion several
hundred alumnae toured our two
display rooms in the chapel. Their
reactions ran the gamut from tears
to glee to gratitude. One dear soul
said, "It makes me mad as hell that
these lovely things have been hid-
den and neglected all these years,
and we have to do something about
it! " J&
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Your editor has graciously invited
me to share some of my
thoughts about women's colleges
for this issue of the Alumnae
Magazine, and I am delighted and
honored to do so! What follows is
rooted in two studies I have publish-
ed earlier, and then built upon
thorough observations and ex-
periences related to women in their
educational and work environments.
My intent is to have us gain some in-
sights about women, about women's
place in institutional life, and about
ourselves. Further, I hope that even
as we learn from other women, we
will become the teachers of women
and men as we explore ways to
redefine and refine what it means to
be a woman in our society.
The first study I would cite involv-
ed the interrogation of a very large
database collected by the American
Council on Education in a national
survey of teaching faculty. 1 I was able
to obtain special printouts of their
data catagorized according to five
educational institutional types, and
according to sex, for a number of
questions that I had selected from
the original questionnaire. One
subset of questions had to do with
what I called issues of concern to
women, or overtly sex-related ques-
tions. One of these, for example,
stated, "In most of my classes, men
students comprehend the material
better than women students."
Women faculty, regardless of in-
stitutional affiliation, were far more
likely to disagree with this query
than were men faculty. There was
also a subset of questions dealing
with the relative importance of
teaching and research. Among the
most revealing questions were those
that required the respondent to rate
herself or himself in terms of suc-
cess as compared with women and
men of similar age, professional
preparation, and field.
Differences between women's and
men's responses to these questions
appeared in terms of the patterns for
each sex: women exhibited one pat-
tern when comparing themselves
with men and a different one when
comparing themselves with women,
while men had a unitary pattern for
their comparison with faculty of
both sexes. It is as if a woman facul-
ty member, when asked how suc-
cessful she is, says, "It depends.
Successful compared with whom?"
The Importance
of Women to Women
by M. Elizabeth Tidball
Board of Overseers
"Our responsibility as women is to
assure that we learn to value each other
as dependable and productive compan-
ions and colleagues. In so doing, we
render ourselves capable of con-
siderable strength, and both confident
and competent to participate in all
aspects of the shaping of a more
humane society."
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When women compared themselves
with men, the strongest correlates of
success were those we might call
feminine: concerns for teaching and
for issues related to women students
and faculty. When women compared
themselves with other women, cor-
relates of success were more
masculine: a negation of concerns
for teaching, and identification with
men who rate themselves more suc-
cessful than other men. That is, their
sense of success was derivative
rather than original.
Now let us look more closely at
the two groups of women who rated
themselves more successful than
the other groups of women faculty.
Highest self-rated were the women
faculty who teach in traditionally all-
male colleges (many of which now
admit women students). They com-
pared themselves moderately well
with respect to men, but highly
favorably with respect to other
women. That is, their overall high
ranking occurred primarily on the
basis of negation of teaching and af-
filiation with elite males. Next-to-
highest self-rated were the women
faculty who teach in traditionally all-
female colleges. They compared
themselves moderately well with
respect to other women, but most
favorably with respect to men. The
chief inputs to their overall ratings
were their concerns for teaching and
woman-related issues.
Which would you prefer to have as
your professors: women who adopt
more feminine behaviors but feel
less successful, or women who
adopt male-imitative behaviors and
feel more successful? I trust you see
the dilemmas for women students
and for women academic profes-
sionals. The current choices are
surely not easy or straightforward.
Perhaps you are thinking you would
rather be taught by the men who
rate themselves most successful.
But note first the correlates of their
success ratings: employment in a
research-oriented institution, nega-
tion of teaching, and the least con-
cern among all faculty for issues of
importance to women faculty and
students.
"...Women students in
most institutions of
higher learning are
taught by teachers who
devalue women or
devalue themselves.
Women in women's col-
leges suffer least."
From these data one can infer that
women students in most institutions
of higher learning are taught by
teachers who devalue women or
devalue themselves. Women in
women's colleges suffer least,
because of the very large proportion
of women faculty present, because
of these women's relatively high
level of self-esteem, and because of
the vigorous affirmation of women
and their concerns attested to by
most adult women in academe.
However, it must be acknowledged
that only a very small fraction of
women students and faculty receive
the benefits of such environments.
Surely it is important that we sup-
port and encourage the vitality and
continuation of the option of
women's colleges for women. But it
should also be apparent that, as
educated women, we have a major
task before us in the renewal and
redirection of all institutions of all
kinds, that they may become places
where women are regularly valued
by both women and men, and places
where the values of women are in-
corporated and promulgated
throughout all segments of institu-
tional life. Failing these objectives,
we perpetuate untold losses of talent
among women by delaying the con-
tributions of many if not denying
completely the emergence of that
talent in others.
Who we really are
What can we do to ameliorate and
rectify the environments in which
some women live and work? How
can women find themselves and
know who they are, surrounded as
they are by societal institutions
designed by and for men? The start-
ing point, I believe, lies in the task
of redefinition of success, motiva-
tion, leadership, creativity and,
most basic of all, of what we mean
by man and woman. In particular we
must redefine the meaning of
woman away from the stereotypes of
yesterday toward a new freedom to
be who we really are.
It is this venture, this adventure,
to which we are called, in which we
must join, if women are to be able to
contribute their talents, their
knowledge, and, yes, their qualities
of being female to a world
desperately in need of vision and
revision. Men will not lead the way in
our redefinition; men will not
ponder and and promulgate ways to
enhance environments for the
education and careers of women.
Men do not regularly and voluntarily
place matters affecting women at
the head of their agendas. It is to us,
to women, to provide the direction
and the thrust. To be sure, I would
not exclude men from this
endeavor, and I would hope that
many men would want to become in-
volved; but the impetus, the energy,
the ideas, the leadership must
originate with women themselves.
To do this — to redefine woman —
women must be able to work
together, learn together, formulate
plans of action among themselves in
order to ask the critical questions
and to move toward formulating a
series of challenging answers.
One fruitful direction stems from
the appreciation of two relatively
new conditions of life brought about
by developments in the health
sciences and technology. One of
these is that we now have, for the
first time in the history of the
universe as we know it, highly
reliable means for controlling our
reproductive capacity. The ability to
determine when we shall be involved
in childbearing and childrearing has
markedly altered our perceptions of
women's participation in work roles
and provided for a kind of depen-
dability and predictability which we
have never had before. The other
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condition of life which we are just
beginning to appreciate relates to
the fact that both women and men
now live healthier and much longer
lives. We are no longer old and worn
out at 40, or even 50 or 60. We are
not in total decline during our
postmenopausal years. I find it in-
triguing and not surprising that
some of the new research in
developmental psychology should
be emphasizing the growth and
redirections possible in men's lives
beyond young and middle
adulthood. Men's lives and careers
are no longer seen as a curve rising
during youth, peaking in middle
adulthood, and declining thereafter.
Nor should women's lives be viewed
this way.
For all of their history, women
have been presumed to have one
prime function, a function to be car-
ried out during but a narrow span of
their lives. And, perhaps more im-
portant, woman's reason for being
has been viewed primarily in the
context of her necessary affiliation
and attachment to man. Women
also perpetuate this view with its at-
tendant negative impact upon
themselves and upon women in
general. Far too often women have
believed that as soon as they marry
or become involved in a career —
both of which customarily place
them more in the company of men
than of women — they will have
"grown up," meaning grown beyond
their need of other women, having
entered into the world of men. Dur-
ing the years of greatest productivi-
ty and energy, women therefore
tend to divert the major portion of
that energy to activities that exclude
substantive interactions with other
women.
It is the understanding of this
tendency and its rectification that
are pivotal to the redefinition of
woman, the idea that a woman's life
is not a sequence focused upon and
realized but briefly during her
reproductive years, with adoles-
cence the prelude and middle age
the denouement to senescence. In
our redefining we must reinstate the
elements of childhood and ado-
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"Surely it is important
that we support and en-
courage the vitality and
continuation of the op-
tion of women's colleges
for women."
lescence, of middle and old age,
that provide for continuity and
meaning to our lives as human be-
ings who are women. We have had,
as children, and will have again,
reasons for being that are not ex-
plicitly related to our unique
biology. Yet I believe this insight is
only beginning to reach a conscious
level as we see women of 50 and 60
and 70, and appreciate their intrin-
sic value laid bare by the absence of
potential or real biological com-
petence. Only now are we realizing,
perhaps for the first time, the need
to seek and to define those elements
necessary for coherence in women's
lives. It is because we are witnessing
a substantial number of productive
older women as role models that we
are able to develop the perspective
essential for a viable and inherently
consistent redefinition of woman.
Role Models
Role models. Women role models.
There has been a lot of talk in recent
years about role models for women,
and it is not surprising, I suppose,
that some people have gotten up-
tight on the subject, and some have
attempted to initiate great con-
troversy or disdain. I should like to
simplify the idea and put it into a
useful context.
My view of role models is very
broad. We are all role models for
others; that is, like it or not, there is
always someone and probably many
ones out there looking at us, more
or less, gaining inspiration or
displeasure, approving or disapprov-
ing. Women may attempt to utilize
men as role models but, because of
society's differing views of wo 
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